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title: Creating user accounts parent: Administration permalink: /administration/createusers nav_order: 1
Creating user accounts
User accounts can be created on a Dendrite instance in a number of ways.
From the command line
The create-account tool is built in the bin folder when building Dendrite with
the build.sh script.
It uses the dendrite.yaml configuration file to connect to a running Dendrite instance and requires
shared secret registration to be enabled as explained below.
An example of using create-account to create a normal account:
./bin/create-account -config /path/to/dendrite.yaml -username USERNAME
You will be prompted to enter a new password for the new account.
To create a new admin account, add the -admin flag:
./bin/create-account -config /path/to/dendrite.yaml -username USERNAME -admin
By default create-account uses http://localhost:8008 to connect to Dendrite, this can be overwritten using
the -url flag:
./bin/create-account -config /path/to/dendrite.yaml -username USERNAME -url https://localhost:8448
An example of using create-account when running in Docker, having found the CONTAINERNAME from docker ps:
docker exec -it CONTAINERNAME /usr/bin/create-account -config /path/to/dendrite.yaml -username USERNAME
docker exec -it CONTAINERNAME /usr/bin/create-account -config /path/to/dendrite.yaml -username USERNAME -admin
Using shared secret registration
Dendrite supports the Synapse-compatible shared secret registration endpoint.
To enable shared secret registration, you must first enable it in the dendrite.yaml
configuration file by specifying a shared secret. In the client_api section of the config,
enter a new secret into the registration_shared_secret field:
client_api:
# ...
registration_shared_secret: ""
You can then use the /_synapse/admin/v1/register endpoint as per the
Synapse documentation.
Shared secret registration is only enabled once a secret is configured. To disable shared secret registration again, remove the secret from the configuration file.