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Not able to create super user with Django manage.py

Trying to create a super user for my database:

manage.py createsuperuser

Getting a sad recursive message:

Superuser creation skipped due to not running in a TTY. You can run manage.py createsuperuser in your project to create one manually.

Seriously Django? Seriously?

The only information I found for this was the one listed above but it didn't work: Unable to create superuser in django due to not working in TTY

And this other one here, which is basically the same: Can't Create Super User Django

Solution

  • If you run 

    $ python manage.py createsuperuser
Superuser creation skipped due to not running in a TTY. You can run manage.py createsuperuser in your project to create one manually.
    from Git Bash and face the above error message try to append winpty i.e. for example:

    $ winpty python manage.py createsuperuser
Username (leave blank to use '...'):

    To be able to run python commands as usual on windows as well what I normally do is appending an alias line to the ~/.profile file i.e. 

     MINGW64 ~$ cat ~/.profile
 alias python='winpty python'

    After doing so, either source the ~/.profile file or simply restart the terminal and the initial command python manage.py createsuperuser should work as expected!