Is this the right issue type?

• Yes, I'm planning work for this project team.

Summary

Adding a default super user for Carrot when it is first installed would be very helpful.

Currently the install documentation asks that this is done locally: https://carrot.ac.uk/mapper/deployment/azure/steps#backend-app

A Django superuser also need creating by connecting to the Backend app and run the command:

python manage.py createsuperuser

We would like to do this through a management command, that will check if any users exist - and if they do not create one. This prevents super users being created by mistake.

The default credentials should be:

username: admin
password: Password123! (this should be capable of being overridden by environment variables)

Acceptance Criteria

• When Carrot starts with a blank user database, a super user is created.
• If users exist in the database, no super user is created.
• The super user password is configurable through environment variables

Tasks

• A new management command
• Checks if users exists
• If not - create a new user
• Have password be configurable through environment variable, and a set a default

Confirm creation

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