"""Management command to grant or revoke superuser access for one or more users""" from optparse import make_option from django.contrib.auth.models import User from django.core.management.base import BaseCommand, CommandError class Command(BaseCommand): """Management command to grant or revoke superuser access for one or more users""" option_list = BaseCommand.option_list + ( make_option('--unset', action='store_true', dest='unset', default=False, help='Set is_superuser to False instead of True'), ) args = '<user|email> [user|email ...]>' help = """ This command will set is_superuser to true for one or more users. Lookup by username or email address, assumes usernames do not look like email addresses. """ def handle(self, *args, **options): if len(args) < 1: raise CommandError('Usage is set_superuser {0}'.format(self.args)) for user in args: try: if '@' in user: userobj = User.objects.get(email=user) else: userobj = User.objects.get(username=user) if options['unset']: userobj.is_superuser = False else: userobj.is_superuser = True userobj.save() except Exception as err: # pylint: disable=broad-except print "Error modifying user with identifier {}: {}: {}".format(user, type(err).__name__, err.message) print 'Success!'