How to enable and disable the application admin?

The application admin functionality allows Horusec-Auth to create an admin user automatically, when it doesn’t exist. But if your application already have an admin user, Horusec-Auth deletes and recreates other with your data.

How to enable?

Step 1: Start the microservice Horusec-auth with:

• Environment variable: HORUSEC_ENABLE_APPLICATION_ADMIN;
• Value true.

Step 2: Now, Horusec creates the admin user of the application with the default value. You will always see an user admin: the “application admin”.

Step 3: The user is created with the following data:

username = horusec-admin
email = horusec-admin@example.com
password = Devpass0*

How to configure the users data?

You can also configure the user data, check out the two scenarios:

Scenario 1: In Horusec-auth’s microsservice with the environment variable HORUSEC_APPLICATION_ADMIN_DATA and the value true, you will see the data through the enviroment variable HORUSEC_APPLICATION_ADMIN_DATA in the following format:

"{\"username\": \"horusec-admin\",\"email\":\"horusec-admin@example.com\",\"password\":\"Devpass0*\"}"

Scenario 2: In the Horusec-auth’s microsservice with the environment variable HORUSEC_ENABLE_APPLICATION_ADMIN with the value false the admin is disabled. In this scenario, the user is not created in the system when your application starts.

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