Comments on: Howto Reset The Admin Password in Django http://coderseye.com/2007/howto-reset-the-admin-password-in-django.html Programming is passion made real Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:27:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Bruce Kroeze http://coderseye.com/2007/howto-reset-the-admin-password-in-django.html#comment-1480 Bruce Kroeze Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:27:29 +0000 http://coderseye.com/2007/howto-reset-the-admin-password-in-django.html#comment-1480 Posters who are pointing out that you can now do that from a simple "changepassword" command are right! When I wrote this, there was no such command. Now it is much easier. Posters who are pointing out that you can now do that from a simple “changepassword” command are right! When I wrote this, there was no such command. Now it is much easier.

]]> By: Bill http://coderseye.com/2007/howto-reset-the-admin-password-in-django.html#comment-1479 Bill Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:16:59 +0000 http://coderseye.com/2007/howto-reset-the-admin-password-in-django.html#comment-1479 Why not just do it from the manager? ./manage.py changepassword admin Why not just do it from the manager?

./manage.py changepassword admin

]]> By: Val http://coderseye.com/2007/howto-reset-the-admin-password-in-django.html#comment-1477 Val Sat, 12 Nov 2011 23:45:47 +0000 http://coderseye.com/2007/howto-reset-the-admin-password-in-django.html#comment-1477 It make sense to change the password via a configuration setting prior to a syncdb specially if you are on the production server. You don't want to jump into typing python code directly. Check django-bootup for more details. https://github.com/un33k/django-bootup/blob/master/README It make sense to change the password via a configuration setting prior to a syncdb specially if you are on the production server. You don’t want to jump into typing python code directly.

Check django-bootup for more details.

https://github.com/un33k/django-bootup/blob/master/README

]]> By: Marconius http://coderseye.com/2007/howto-reset-the-admin-password-in-django.html#comment-1466 Marconius Fri, 23 Sep 2011 19:28:31 +0000 http://coderseye.com/2007/howto-reset-the-admin-password-in-django.html#comment-1466 ~/my/app$ ./manage.py changepassword admin from: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/django-admin/#changepassword Me thinks this is the best way to do it now. ~/my/app$ ./manage.py changepassword admin

from: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/django-admin/#changepassword

Me thinks this is the best way to do it now.

]]> By: japa http://coderseye.com/2007/howto-reset-the-admin-password-in-django.html#comment-1459 japa Tue, 31 May 2011 06:49:16 +0000 http://coderseye.com/2007/howto-reset-the-admin-password-in-django.html#comment-1459 I confirm this worked for me with Pinax (using Django 1.3) while the original did not work. Thanks I confirm this worked for me with Pinax (using Django 1.3) while the original did not work. Thanks

]]> By: Jonathan http://coderseye.com/2007/howto-reset-the-admin-password-in-django.html#comment-1456 Jonathan Sat, 30 Apr 2011 03:03:46 +0000 http://coderseye.com/2007/howto-reset-the-admin-password-in-django.html#comment-1456 I think understand why: users[0].set_password(‘whatever’) doesn't work, rory's solution does. It is because 'users' is a queryset, which essentially means that "users[0]" is better thought of as the execution of a function instead of an "object" that is storing information about the user. When users[0] is called, it executes a database query and returns the result. In other words, "users[0].set_password('whatever')" returns the information of the user with the modified password, but this information is *not* saved in users[0], since a queryset can't actually hold the result of the database query. I think understand why:
users[0].set_password(‘whatever’)
doesn’t work, rory’s solution does.

It is because ‘users’ is a queryset, which essentially means that “users[0]” is better thought of as the execution of a function instead of an “object” that is storing information about the user. When users[0] is called, it executes a database query and returns the result. In other words, “users[0].set_password(‘whatever’)” returns the information of the user with the modified password, but this information is *not* saved in users[0], since a queryset can’t actually hold the result of the database query.

]]> By: Diomedes Alakazam http://coderseye.com/2007/howto-reset-the-admin-password-in-django.html#comment-1452 Diomedes Alakazam Sun, 27 Feb 2011 19:06:50 +0000 http://coderseye.com/2007/howto-reset-the-admin-password-in-django.html#comment-1452 (4+ years later - still this post is found at google and helps the occasional person that forgets the obvious...) Anyway, was curious why Amit's reply worked (while the orignal didn't). So it seems that he important difference is that Amit does user = ... user.set_password user.save instead of the original post which was working on the full path users[0].set_password('whatever') users.save() After failing to change the password in that way I just rewrote it as user = users[0] user.set_password('whatever') user.save() and that worked perfectly. diomedes (4+ years later – still this post is found at google and helps the occasional person that forgets the obvious…)

Anyway, was curious why Amit’s reply worked (while the orignal didn’t).
So it seems that he important difference is that Amit does

user = …
user.set_password
user.save

instead of the original post which was working on the full path
users[0].set_password(‘whatever’)
users.save()

After failing to change the password in that way I just rewrote it as

user = users[0]
user.set_password(‘whatever’)
user.save()

and that worked perfectly.

diomedes

]]> By: rcmichelle http://coderseye.com/2007/howto-reset-the-admin-password-in-django.html#comment-693 rcmichelle Fri, 27 Aug 2010 07:06:36 +0000 http://coderseye.com/2007/howto-reset-the-admin-password-in-django.html#comment-693 you can try to google Password Genius you can try to google Password Genius

]]> By: Hobs http://coderseye.com/2007/howto-reset-the-admin-password-in-django.html#comment-630 Hobs Thu, 12 Aug 2010 01:54:52 +0000 http://coderseye.com/2007/howto-reset-the-admin-password-in-django.html#comment-630 Rorys, Likewise for me (and apparently Amit). I'm using the latest development Django (as of 2010-08-10), fully updated Ubuntu distribution of Python 2.6 (r265:79063, Apr 16 2010, 13:09:56), and development version of Pinax (0.9...?). Perhaps something to do with Python 2.6 object array dereferencing with brackets? Rorys,
Likewise for me (and apparently Amit). I’m using the latest development Django (as of 2010-08-10), fully updated Ubuntu distribution of Python 2.6 (r265:79063, Apr 16 2010, 13:09:56), and development version of Pinax (0.9…?). Perhaps something to do with Python 2.6 object array dereferencing with brackets?

]]> By: Owen Byrne http://coderseye.com/2007/howto-reset-the-admin-password-in-django.html#comment-328 Owen Byrne Fri, 11 Jun 2010 20:08:49 +0000 http://coderseye.com/2007/howto-reset-the-admin-password-in-django.html#comment-328 The method from the comments worked for me. You might want to remove that semi-colon, since it betrays a background with some less cool language. .-= Owen Byrne´s last blog ..<a href="http://www.owenbyrne.com/2009/12/19/top-digg-unpromoted-stories-2009-12-05-to-2009-12-12/" rel="nofollow">Top Digg Unpromoted Stories 2009-12-05 to 2009-12-12</a> =-. The method from the comments worked for me. You might want to remove that semi-colon, since it betrays a background with some less cool language.
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