Create Episerver admin user by code

Thanks for the updated version!

I would like to suggest here that, the simple password that do not meet the minimum level of security (like we need one caps and one small letter and numeric and special character. for example "password") will not be accepted as password and you will not be able to figure out the issue that why you are not able to login even entering the correct username and password.

I just faced the issue. Therefore, try to follow the security parameters. (example "Simple123#")

Thanks for blog, best regards

Praful Jangid

I made a quick and dirty upgrade to CMS 12:

[InitializableModule]
[ModuleDependency(typeof(EPiServer.Web.InitializationModule))]
public class EpiserverInitialization : IInitializableModule
{
    private static readonly string[] _roles = { "WebAdmins", "WebEditors" };

    public void Initialize(InitializationEngine context)
    {
        var appUserManager = context.Locate.Advanced.GetService<ApplicationUserManager<ApplicationUser>>();
        var roleManager = context.Locate.Advanced.GetService<RoleManager<IdentityRole>>();
        var sysAdminExists = appUserManager.Users.ToList().Any(x => x.UserName == "sysadmin");
        if(!sysAdminExists)
        {
            var newUser = CreateUser(appUserManager, "sysadmin", "Simple123#", "noreply@mysite.com");
            AddUserToRoles(appUserManager, roleManager, newUser, _roles);
            appUserManager.UpdateAsync(newUser).GetAwaiter().GetResult();
        }
    }

    private ApplicationUser CreateUser(ApplicationUserManager<ApplicationUser> store, string username, string password, string email)
    {
        ApplicationUser applicationUser = new ApplicationUser
        {
            Email = email,
            EmailConfirmed = true,
            LockoutEnabled = true,
            IsApproved = true,
            UserName = username,
            SecurityStamp = Guid.NewGuid().ToString()
        };
        IPasswordHasher<ApplicationUser> hasher = store.PasswordHasher;
        string passwordHash = hasher.HashPassword(applicationUser, password);
        applicationUser.PasswordHash = passwordHash;

        store.CreateAsync(applicationUser).GetAwaiter().GetResult();

        //Get the user associated with our username
        ApplicationUser createdUser = store.FindByNameAsync(username).GetAwaiter().GetResult();
        return createdUser;
    }

    private void AddUserToRoles(ApplicationUserManager<ApplicationUser> store, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Identity.RoleManager<IdentityRole> roleManager, ApplicationUser user, string[] roles)
    {
        using (roleManager)
        {
            IList<string> userRoles = store.GetRolesAsync(user).GetAwaiter().GetResult();
            foreach (string roleName in roles)
            {
                if (roleManager.FindByNameAsync(roleName).GetAwaiter().GetResult() == null)
                {
                    roleManager.CreateAsync(new IdentityRole { Name = roleName }).GetAwaiter().GetResult();
                }
                if (!userRoles.Contains(roleName))
                    store.AddToRoleAsync(user, roleName).GetAwaiter().GetResult();
            }
        }
    }

    public void Uninitialize(InitializationEngine context)
    {
    }

    public void Preload(string[] parameters)
    {
    }
}

Thanks for sharing Kevin, this saved my day.

Again, thanks to Kristoffer too.