User Management

The first user

The first user to sign up to a numbat tasks instance will be marked as a "superuser". This user can manage other users, create new accounts, reset passwords, and delete accounts.

One user can sign up even with the SIGNUP_ENABLED environment variable is set to false (the default)

The API endpoints exist for user management, however a nice GUI through the frontend is still on the to-do list, so for now the Django admin console is the only way to manage users.

While the first user to sign up is a superuser, they do not get the "staff" status, this is by design as long term we don't want users to have to log into the Django admin console. However, for now we will need to create a superuser with the staff status.

Create a superuser with the staff status

This will create a superuser that can log in to the Django admin console.

docker compose exec -it api /venv/bin/python /api/manage.py createsuperuser

Create and manage other users

Once the superuser has been created, log in to the admin panel and from there you can create/update/delete other users (and tasks)