Magento 2 – Create admin account via command line

Magento 2 provides different ways to create an admin account/user, we can create a new admin user from the admin panel and via the command line (CLI). Here is how to do it via CLI.

To create an admin user, Go to Magento 2 root folder, run the command:

php bin/magento admin:user:create

It will ask you: username, password, email, first, and last name. Fill all the details and the user will be created successfully.

For more information about the above command, you can use

php bin/magento admin:user:create --help

Usage: 
    admin:user:create [options]

Options:

–admin-user=ADMIN-USER	(Required) Admin user
–admin-password=ADMIN-PASSWORD	(Required) Admin password
–admin-email=ADMIN-EMAIL	(Required) Admin email
–admin-firstname=ADMIN-FIRSTNAME	(Required) Admin first name
–admin-lastname=ADMIN-LASTNAME	(Required) Admin last name
–magento-init-params=MAGENTO-INIT-PARAMS	Add to any command to customize Magento initialization parameters

-h, –help Display this help message
-q, –quiet Do not output any message
-V, –version Display this application version
–ANSI Force ANSI output
–no-ANSI Disable ANSI output
-n, –no-interaction Do not ask any interactive question
-v|vv|vvv, –verbose Increase the verbosity of messages: 1 for normal output, 2 for more verbose output and 3 for debug

Help:
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