Create an admin user programmatically in Magento 2.0

Question

It is simple to add new admin user in Magento 1.9

<?php
require_once('app/Mage.php');
umask(0);
Mage::app();

$user = Mage::getModel('admin/user')
    ->setData(array(
        'username'  => 'admin',
        'firstname' => 'admin',
        'lastname'  => 'admin',
        'email'     => '[email protected]',
        'password'  => 'hacker@123',
        'is_active' => 1
    ))
    ->save();

$user->setRoleIds(array(1))
    ->setRoleUserId($user->getUserId())
    ->saveRelations();

echo "User has been created successfully!";

?>

But how can I add admin user in Magento 2.0?

Answer 1

You can create user using userFactory

/**
 * User model factory
 *
 * @var \Magento\User\Model\UserFactory
 */    
protected $_userFactory;

public function __construct(
    \Magento\User\Model\UserFactory $userFactory,
) {
    $this->_userFactory = $userFactory;
}

public function execute(){

    $adminInfo = [
        'username'  => 'killer',
        'firstname' => 'admin',
        'lastname'    => 'admin',
        'email'     => '[email protected]',
        'password'  =>'hello@123',       
        'interface_locale' => 'en_US',
        'is_active' => 1
    ];

    $userModel = $this->_userFactory->create();
    $userModel->setData($adminInfo);
    $userModel->setRoleId(1);
    try{
       $userModel->save(); 
    } catch (\Exception $ex) {
        $ex->getMessage();
    }
}

You can also refer how magento creates user git source

Answer 2

You can create the admin user by running the following command via SSH on the root directory level.

php bin/magento admin:user:create --admin-user="admin" --admin-firstname="Admin" --admin-lastname="A" --admin-email="[email protected]" --admin-password="admin@5252"

Answer 3

Create a file in root directory. for ex. admin.php

<?php 
use Magento\Framework\App\Bootstrap;
require 'app/bootstrap.php';
$bootstrap = Bootstrap::create(BP, $_SERVER);
$objectManager = $bootstrap->getObjectManager();
$UserFactory = $objectManager->get('\Magento\User\Model\UserFactory');

    try{
        $adminInfo = [
        'username'  => 'magento',
        'firstname' => 'magento',
        'lastname'    => 'magento',
        'email'     => '[email protected]',
        'password'  =>'magento@123',       
        'interface_locale' => 'en_US',
        'is_active' => 1
    ];

    $userModel = $UserFactory->create();
    $userModel->setData($adminInfo);
    $userModel->setRoleId(1);
    $userModel->save(); 

    } catch (\Exception $ex) {
        echo $ex->getMessage();
         exit;
    }
    echo "User is sucessfully created!"
?>

Answer 4

If it is a one time use or if you need it during development, then alternatively you may execute the below mysql commands on phpMyAdmin or mysql command line to create an admin user.

LOCK TABLES `admin_role` WRITE , `admin_user` WRITE;
SET @SALT = "rp";
SET @PASS = CONCAT(MD5(CONCAT( @SALT , "password") ), CONCAT(":", @SALT ));
SELECT @EXTRA := MAX(extra) FROM admin_user WHERE extra IS NOT NULL;
INSERT INTO `admin_user` (firstname,lastname,email,username,password,created,lognum,reload_acl_flag,is_active,extra,rp_token_created_at) 
VALUES ('Firstname','Lastname','[email protected]','adminuser',@PASS,NOW(),0,0,1,@EXTRA,NOW());
INSERT INTO `admin_role` (parent_id,tree_level,sort_order,role_type,user_id,role_name) 
VALUES (1,2,0,'U',(SELECT user_id FROM admin_user WHERE username = 'adminuser'),'Firstname');
UNLOCK TABLES;

Find explanation and more details here

Hope this helps people who are looking for similar issue/solution.