[Fixed]-Heroku app.json set default django admin password

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After some research, I managed to do what I wanted and thought I’d share it. I was able to do it using django-extensions. I made a python script

# create_admin.py
import os
if "ADMIN_USER" in os.environ and "ADMIN_PASSWORD" in os.environ:
    from django.contrib.auth.models import User
    user=User.objects.create_user(os.environ['ADMIN_USER'], password=os.environ['ADMIN_PASSWORD'])
    user.is_superuser=True
    user.is_staff=True
    user.save()

and changed the scripts part of my app.json

  "scripts": {
    "postdeploy": "sh -c 'python manage.py syncdb --noinput; python manage.py migrate --noinput; python manage.py runscript create_admin'"
  }

make sure you read django-extensions docs for more information on where to place the scripts and how to python manage.py runscript.

IMPORTANT: you may want to go to herkou’s configs page and remove the environment variables after you run the script.

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