install-cli-subcommands-admin.md

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First steps

{% include install/first-steps-cli.html %} In addition to the command arguments discussed here, see Common arguments.

Prerequisites

Before you can use this command, you must do all of the following:

• Create the deployment configuration

• Enable at minimum the Magento_Authorization and Magento_User modules

• Create the Magento database schema

  The simplest way to create the database is to use the command magento setup:upgrade.

Create an administrator

Command usage:

magento admin:user:create [--<parameter_name>=<value>, ...]

where the following table defines parameters and values.

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Name	Value	Required?
--admin-firstname	Magento administrator user's first name.	Yes
--admin-lastname	Magento administrator user's last name.	Yes
--admin-email	Magento administrator user's e-mail address.	Yes
--admin-user	Magento administrator user name.	Yes
--admin-password	Magento administrator user password. The password must be at least 7 characters in length and must include at least one alphabetic and at least one numeric character. We recommend a longer, more complex password. Enclose the entire password string in single quotes. For example, --admin-password=''A0b9%t_3`g'	Yes

Unlock an administrator account

Use this command to unlock the account of an administrator that was locked, typically because of multiple incorrect login attempts.

magento admin:user:unlock {user name}

You must specify the administrator's user name. Example:

magento admin:user:unlock admin
The user account "admin" has been unlocked

If the account is either not unlocked or if there was a problem, the following message displays:

The user account "admin" was not locked or could not be unlocked

Verify the user is an administrator, the user is active, and that the account is currently locked. To view the list of locked users in the Admin, log in as an administrator and click System > Permissions > Locked Users.

If the account doesn't exist, the following message displays:

Couldn't find the user account "bob"

Related topics

• Installing the Magento software using the command line
• [Remove sample data modules or update sample data]({{ page.baseurl }}install-gde/install/cli/install-cli-sample-data-other.html)
• [Enable or disable modules]({{ page.baseurl }}install-gde/install/cli/install-cli-subcommands-enable.html)
• [Display or change the Admin URI]({{ page.baseurl }}install-gde/install/cli/install-cli-adminurl.html)
• [Uninstall modules]({{ page.baseurl }}install-gde/install/cli/install-cli-uninstall-mods.html)
• Create or update the deployment configuration
• Enable or disable maintenance mode
• Create the Magento database schema
• [Update the Magento database schema and data]({{ page.baseurl }}install-gde/install/cli/install-cli-subcommands-db-upgr.html)
• Configure the store
• [Back up and roll back the file system, media, and database]({{ page.baseurl }}install-gde/install/cli/install-cli-backup.html)
• [Uninstall themes]({{ page.baseurl }}install-gde/install/cli/install-cli-theme-uninstall.html)
• [Uninstall language packages]({{ page.baseurl }}install-gde/install/cli/install-cli-uninstall-langpk.html)
• Uninstall the Magento software
• Update the Magento software
• Reinstall the Magento software