Cannot create user: registration not offered and create-user script fails with "potential injection attack"

[mramendi]

Hello,

I have installed LibreChat on a RHEL9 VPS using podman compose up -d . (Needed to add :z to some volume definitions but this is normal for RHEL.) I do not yet have a reverse proxy set up so I use HTTP access via port 3080.

Unfortunately I am unable to create a user.

The UI that opens does not have any link to creating a new user - it just asks for the email address and password, despite ALLOW_REGISTRATION=true in .env

So I try to go with the user creation script but hit an error:

[admin@de2 LibreChat]$ podman exec -it LibreChat npm run create-user -- --email="[email protected]" --password="tryLibRE" --name="misha" --role="ADMIN"

> [email protected] create-user
> node config/create-user.js [email protected] --password=tryLibRE --name=misha --role=ADMIN

Warming up the engines...
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Create a new user account!
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Warning: password passed in as argument, this is not secure!
Email verified? (Y/n, default is Y):

If `y`, the user's email will be considered verified.
      
If `n`, and email service is configured, the user will be sent a verification email.

If `n`, and email service is not configured, you must have the `ALLOW_UNVERIFIED_EMAIL_LOGIN` .env variable set to true,
or the user will need to attempt logging in to have a verification link sent to them.
> y
2025-08-10 02:44:28 info: Route: register - Validation Error
Error: username: Potential injection attack detected email: Invalid email

How do I create an admin user so that I can actually try LibreChat?