Create Flask Admin User

This will be a user with full admin rights to view the backend of your database. So this user should probably only be you as a solo founder / creator!

For reference you can see a full list of Flask Admin commands by running this:

flask users --help

This will generate the following output:

Usage: flask users [OPTIONS] **COMMAND** [ARGS]...

  User commands.

  For commands that require a USER - pass in any identity attribute.

Options:
  --help  Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  activate         Activate a user.
  change_password  Administratively change a user's password.
  create           Create a user.
  deactivate       Deactivate a user.
  reset_access     Reset all authentication credentials for user.

1. Create a new user:

flask users create [your-email-here]

Then you will be asked to create a new password, with this prompt:

Password: 

After that you will be asked to confirm:

Repeat for confirmation: 

If all worked correctly, you will see this message:

User created successfully.
{'email': '[your-email-here]', 'password': '****', 'active': False}

2. Activate the user:

flask users activate [your-email-here]

The terminal should then respond with this output:

User "[your-email-here]" has been activated.

3. Create an admin role. And add this role to the user you have just created:

flask roles create admin

flask roles add [your-email-here] admin

The terminal should then respond with this output:

Role "admin" added to user "[your-email-here]" successfully.

You will now use these admin credentials to log into your admin dashboard at localhost:5001/admin. (Only users with the role "admin" can do this as specified in app/admin_views.py). If you would like to learn more about this see my tutorial on securing your web app with Flask security here.

Now when you go to localhost:5001/admin and click on User on the navbar you will see your admin user entry: