Create admin user

Create admin user

To access restricted routes, it is necessary to have admin rights. This guide describes how to grant admin rights to a certain user.

It is only possible to grant an existing user admin rights. So first of all, you have to create a user account.

Local environment

To grant admin rights to a user on your local setup, please follow these steps:

1. Start local mongodb instance with mongod
2. Open Terminal in explorer-auth
3. run the following command with the user's email address: npm run createAdmin --email=example@mail.com --NODE_ENV=default

Docker environment

To grant admin rights to a user on your local docker setup, please follow these steps:

1. Run docker ps to ensure that the containers are up and running
2. SSH into authentication container with docker exec -it authentication bash
3. run the following command with the user's email address: npm run createAdmin --email=example@mail.com

Production

To grant admin rights to a user on your production server, please follow these steps:

1. SSH into your production server
2. Run docker ps to ensure that the containers are up and running
3. SSH into authentication container with docker exec -it authentication bash
4. run the following command with the user's email address: npm run createAdmin --email=example@mail.com