Unable to create new admin user (clicking "Access" does nothing)

[ViktorNova]

Hello! I just installed a new instance of Reaction without a hitch, sweet!
I don't see a way to change my admin user from the gibberish that was auto generated on the first run, am I missing something?

I tried clicking on "Access" in the dashboard, and it didn't have any effect

[aaronjudd]

that's a mistake on my part, I'm trying to get a build out that has the fix, but docker.io has been having issues today. the secret is that the password is all lowercase and the user is your email.

[aaronjudd]

actually sorry, if you are running locally - I think the password should be working, but use the email address as the user.

[sphvn]

Sorry if I just misunderstood your replies here @aaronjudd, but I believe logging in with the auto generated user and pass from ./bin/reset currently is working fine, using the e-mail as the username and the password supplied. However I believe @ViktorNova was looking for a way to change his username or say set another user as admin, rather than having to use the automatically generated user and password for admin access.

[aaronjudd]

@lavabeams @ViktorNova - you're correct. wasn't thinking right when I first read this.

I'm working on some fixes and enhancements to the site management, and access page now.
I should have an update to all this within a couple days.

[aaronjudd]

I've closed this, as the actual screens should now work, but I've opened Issue #76, which is preventing you from adding new admin users. This process used to send emails out, pre-blaze/spacebars, and now I need to redesign this. Probably with administrable email templates.

[ViktorNova]

Aha, yes, this was my issue. In the meantime, is there a way to manually create a new user without email verification, or to at least change the username and password of the admin user?

Right now my username is 'qcwydggh@localhost', which I will for sure never remember, with an equally forgettable password =)

[aaronjudd]

@ViktorNova if you do a meteor reset (or ./bin/reset) and set some ENV variables you can have the default user be the email/password you would like (from fixtures.coffee):

  options.email = process.env.METEOR_EMAIL #set in env if we want to supply email
  options.username = process.env.METEOR_USER
  options.password = process.env.METEOR_AUTH

so you should add either command line, or in .bash_profile

export METEOR_EMAIL="[email protected]"
export METEOR_USER="admin"
export METEOR_AUTH="password"

etc.

To always get the user you are wanting for default.

[ViktorNova]

That is great, thank you! Just what I was asking

[toome123]

@aaronjudd Hello , first Thanks for sharing this Ecommerce , the idea is amazing... I have problem with sending email.... Maybe is my wrong , but when i set in settings menu the SMTP values using smtp.gmail.com gmail service ... After that i want to add new admin access i have following error
"Error sending email, possible configuration issue.Error: Internal server error [500]"... What is the solution for this ... problem .. Where i can set email setups... For info, this runs locally on my pc.

[aaronjudd]

@toome123 One thing you can try, you can also use export MAIL_URL="" in your environment. See http://docs.meteor.com/#/full/email

If this works, perhaps the form/administrative portion is broken. In either case, if you'll open a new issue with your findings, I'm happy to take a pull request, but I'll take a look at getting it fixed in the next release if it's a new bug.

[toome123]

@aaronjudd Thank's i will make sure that the problem is not in the settings, and if necessary will open issue.

[aaronjudd]

@toome123 Looks like we left the email package out in some refactor. It'll be back in 0.2.2 but in the meantime you should also do meteor add email.

[abhisheksoni27]

Can you explain again how to create a new admin user, because the answer above did not work.

[aaronjudd]

@abhisheksoni27 are you using the development branch? 0.6.0 has a new permissions setup ( but may still require the email server to be configured, localhost might work though depending on your setup)

[gcaracuel]

So sorry to re-live this old issue. But is a mess to be forced to validate email for example when just validating from a Docker container, There is no way to bypass this verification? as the default admin creation does but setting the email and password using ENV variables.

[aaronjudd]

@gcaracuel our docker images are running a production image. it's always going to verify the first admin user created. However in development mode, we don't verify the email. You could either build a development docker image, run locally, or we could add an additional env flag to suppress email validation.

[hydrotik]

Any update on the ENV flag to suppress email validation? I'm using this on Heroku and have been using env settings within Heroku to set the admin user settings. I was able to manually change the validate flag to true through mLab.

[jshimko]

The initial admin email is set to validated by default when in development and you should receive a validation email when in production, so there shouldn't be a need to manually override anything. Worst case, you could edit the record in the database, but I don't really see why that would be necessary when all you have to do is click the validation link that gets emailed to you.

[hydrotik]

Maybe I am missing something here, but how do you get a verification email through the initial deployment if you have to login as admin and hook something like Sendgrid in order to get said verification email?

[jshimko]

You can set the mail with the a reaction.json registry import, or the MAIL_URL Meteor settings key, or the MAIL_URL environment variable.

https://github.com/reactioncommerce/reaction-docs/blob/development/admin/email.md#advanced

[nonfungibletunji]

hey guys, i am running on heroku, i created the environment variables on my running app, but i cannot get a admin user? i looked into the mongodb but the created password is encrypted. How to create a new admin user?