[Bug 1206675] Re: [13.04] sudo maas createsuperuser not a valid command

[Raphaël Badin]

'createsuperuser' is a Django command ([0]) used to create an admin
user. 'createadmin' is a MAAS command, very similar to
'createsuperuser', but which lets you provide the password on the
command line (with --password).  That's inherently insecure and that's
why the Django command doesn't let you do that.  We added the command
'createadmin' because we needed a non-interactive command for packaging
purposes.

This is why, for interactive usage, we should prefer 'createsuperuser'
and thus I don't think the login page or the docs should be updated.

Now, the fact that "sudo maas createsuperuser" breaks is a Django bug:
[1].  It has been fixed (see the bug page) in Django 1.5 but 13.04
contains Django 1.4.

[0] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/django-
admin/#createsuperuser

[1] https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/16017

** Bug watch added: Django Bug Tracker #16017
   http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/16017

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