Support for Initial User Creation

[leefaus]

Many people want to automate the creation of their RC server deployments, just like we do. We should pass in an option on initial setup to allow for an admin/password to be created as part of that process. Maybe even passing in a csv file with login/password combinations to set them up through the API. This is primarily for completely automated setups.

[Sing-Li]

Agreed.

At least for two users:

*admin
*bot

And ideally done ONLY with initial DB setup (if DB exists, no go) - so there is zero security risk.

[sampaiodiego]

I just found this this.
you can create the admin user by environment variables.

[engelgabriel]

@sampaiodiego, please add the options to pass also the Full Name and Username of the initial admin.

[RichardFoxworthy]

Is there any ability to automate creation of multiple user accounts on spin-up of a new Rocket.Chat instance?

We'd like to automate all of the following:

• create new Rocket.Chat instances
• populate the instance with a set of standard public and private rooms (really need some public rooms to be announcement only)
• populate instance with a set of user accounts, wth ability to pre-configure permissions for appropriate per-account access to public and private rooms
• populate the instance with some templated customised content for Home page

[engelgabriel]

@RichardFoxworthy can you detail what you'd need on another issue?
Maybe have the ability to pass a JSON with some bootstrap data via environment variables?
Maybe a JSON with a sequence of methods to call on first startup with respective arguments?

[RichardFoxworthy]

@engelgabriel see #2232