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Ben Shaw
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Ben Shaw is a software engineer based in Auckland, New Zealand. He has worked as a developer for over 14 years and has been building websites with Django since 2007. In that time, his experience has helped many different types of companies, ranging in size from start-ups to large enterprises. He is also interested in machine learning, data science, automating deployments, and DevOps. When not programming, Ben enjoys outdoor sports and spending time with his partner and son.
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Saurabh Badhwar

Saurabh Badhwar is an infrastructure engineer who works on building tools and frameworks that enhance developer productivity. A major part of his work involves using Python to develop services that scale to thousands of concurrent users. He is currently employed at LinkedIn and works on infrastructure performance tools and services.
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Andrew Bird is the data and analytics manager of Vesparum Capital. He leads the software and data science teams at Vesparum, overseeing full-stack web development in Django/React. He is an Australian actuary (FIAA, CERA) who has previously worked with Deloitte Consulting in financial services. Andrew also currently works as a full-stack developer for Draftable Pvt. Ltd. He manages the ongoing development of the donation portal for the Effective Altruism Australia website on a voluntary basis. Andrew has also co-written one of our bestselling titles, "The Python Workshop".
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Bharath Chandra K S
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Bharath Chandra K S lives in Sydney, Australia, and has over 14 years of software industry experience. He is very passionate about software development on the Python stack, including frameworks such as Flask and Django. He has experience working with both monolithic and microservice architectures and has built various public-facing applications and data processing backend systems. When not cooking up software applications, he likes to cook some nice food.
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Chris Guest is based in Melbourne and started programming in Python 24 years ago, when it was an obscure academic language. He has since used his Python knowledge in the publishing, hospitality, medical, academic and financial sectors. Throughout his career, he has worked with many Python web development frameworks, including Zope, TurboGears, web2py, and Flask, although he still prefers Django.
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Creating a Superuser Account

Our Bookr application has just found a new user. Her name is Alice, and she wants to start adding her reviews right away. Bob, who is already using Bookr, has just informed us that his profile seems incomplete and needs to be updated. David no longer wants to use the application and wants his account to be deleted. For security reasons, we do not want just any user performing these tasks for us. That's why we need to create a superuser with elevated privileges. Let's start by doing just that.

In Django's authorization model, a superuser is one with the Staff attribute set. We will examine this later in the chapter and learn more about this authorization model in Chapter 9, Sessions and Authentication.

We can create a superuser by using the manage.py script that we have explored in earlier chapters. Again, we need to be in the project directory when we enter it. We will use the createsuperuser subcommand by entering the following command...

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Ben Shaw

Ben Shaw is a software engineer based in Auckland, New Zealand. He has worked as a developer for over 14 years and has been building websites with Django since 2007. In that time, his experience has helped many different types of companies, ranging in size from start-ups to large enterprises. He is also interested in machine learning, data science, automating deployments, and DevOps. When not programming, Ben enjoys outdoor sports and spending time with his partner and son.
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Saurabh Badhwar

Saurabh Badhwar is an infrastructure engineer who works on building tools and frameworks that enhance developer productivity. A major part of his work involves using Python to develop services that scale to thousands of concurrent users. He is currently employed at LinkedIn and works on infrastructure performance tools and services.
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Andrew Bird

Andrew Bird is the data and analytics manager of Vesparum Capital. He leads the software and data science teams at Vesparum, overseeing full-stack web development in Django/React. He is an Australian actuary (FIAA, CERA) who has previously worked with Deloitte Consulting in financial services. Andrew also currently works as a full-stack developer for Draftable Pvt. Ltd. He manages the ongoing development of the donation portal for the Effective Altruism Australia website on a voluntary basis. Andrew has also co-written one of our bestselling titles, "The Python Workshop".
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Bharath Chandra K S

Bharath Chandra K S lives in Sydney, Australia, and has over 14 years of software industry experience. He is very passionate about software development on the Python stack, including frameworks such as Flask and Django. He has experience working with both monolithic and microservice architectures and has built various public-facing applications and data processing backend systems. When not cooking up software applications, he likes to cook some nice food.
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Chris Guest

Chris Guest is based in Melbourne and started programming in Python 24 years ago, when it was an obscure academic language. He has since used his Python knowledge in the publishing, hospitality, medical, academic and financial sectors. Throughout his career, he has worked with many Python web development frameworks, including Zope, TurboGears, web2py, and Flask, although he still prefers Django.
Read more about Chris Guest