Extend Django's management createsuperuser command to allow non-interactive creation of a superuser with a password.

create-superuser.py

"""
Extend createsuperuser command to allow non-interactive creation of a
superuser with a password.

Instructions:

  mkdir -p path-to-your-app/management/commands/
  touch path-to-your-app/management/__init__.py
  touch path-to-your-app/management/commands/__init__.py

and place this file under path-to-your-app/management/commands/

Example usage:

  manage.py create-superuser \
          --username foo     \
          --password foo     \
          --email foo@foo.foo
"""
from django.contrib.auth.management.commands import createsuperuser
from django.core.management import CommandError


class Command(createsuperuser.Command):
    help = 'Create a superuser with a password non-interactively'

    def add_arguments(self, parser):
        super(Command, self).add_arguments(parser)
        parser.add_argument(
            '--password', dest='password', default=None,
            help='Specifies the password for the superuser.',
        )

    def handle(self, *args, **options):
        options.setdefault('interactive', False)
        database = options.get('database')
        password = options.get('password')
        username = options.get('username')
        email = options.get('email')

        if not password or not username or not email:
            raise CommandError(
                    "--email --username and --password are required options")

        user_data = {
            'username': username,
            'password': password,
            'email': email,
        }

        self.UserModel._default_manager.db_manager(
                database).create_superuser(**user_data)

        if options.get('verbosity', 0) >= 1:
            self.stdout.write("Superuser created successfully.")