Autocreate Admin User From Environment/Secrets

WIP!

This is a small package (specific to our setup) to allow auto-creating an admin user based on environment variables. As we increasingly use Docker/Containers to deploy things we wanted a way of creating an initial admin account on new deploys without having to do something like docker exec some-container bash and doing things by hand.

Usage

You can set the following environment variables :

• AUTO_CREATE_ADMIN - the username of the new admin user
• AUTO_CREATE_PASSWORD - used if the account is local/non-ldap
• AUTO_CREATE_EMAIL - email address for the user

Or there are file-based versions for use with Docker secrets :

• AUTO_CREATE_ADMIN_FILE - file containing the usersname
• AUTO_CREATE_PASSWORD_FILE - file containing the password
• AUTO_CREATE_EMAIL_FILE - file containing the email

Then as part of your deployment / entrypoint you can call :

php artisan autocreate:admin

The command will check for the environment variables and try to create a user. The _FILE variables have precedence. If the username can't be found in LDAP (or there is no LDAP set up) it will create a local user.

Our users table differs from the default Laravel one. We have :

username
surname
forenames
email
is_staff
is_admin

I'll hopefully get round to doing some kind of mapping so this package is more useful to people outside of our setup.