How to Reset a Django Admin Password

This is just a quick post to give a tip on how to recover or reset your Django admin username and/or password.

Use your django shell to query the User model.

python manage.py shell

from django.contrib.auth.models import User

If you can't remember your username, you can view all users in the system.

for u in User.objects.all(): print u.username

Once you know your username, you can simply reset the password:

u = User.objects.get(username='dustin')
u.set_password('secret') u.save()