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14 changes: 5 additions & 9 deletions 08.administration/default.md
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Expand Up @@ -18,17 +18,13 @@ The Dune admin panel is a browser-based interface for managing content, media, u

## Accessing the panel

By default the panel is at `/admin`. Log in with the credentials created at first startup — Dune prints the password to the console and writes it to a temporary file:
By default the panel is at `/admin`. Dune does not create a default admin account: create the first admin yourself (see below), then log in with it. A site that has no enabled admin logs a warning at startup with the command to run.

```
🔑 Default admin created — username: admin
Password written to: data/users/.admin-password-XXXXX
Read it, then delete the file and change your password.
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> Before `@dune/plugin-admin` 3.3.0, first startup created a default `admin` account and wrote its password to a file. That no longer happens. Sites that already have an admin are unaffected.

### Creating the first admin explicitly
### Creating the first admin

You don't have to rely on the generated password. Create the first admin yourself, either from the command line:
Create the first admin from the command line:

```bash
dune users:create admin@example.com --role admin --username admin --password-prompt
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Users are stored in `data/users/` (under `data_dir` in `system.yaml`) and should be committed to version control. Passwords are stored as PBKDF2 hashes — never in plaintext.

On first startup, a default `admin` account is created automatically. Delete the temporary password file and change the password immediately.
There is no default account; see [Creating the first admin](#creating-the-first-admin). To change a password later, use the admin panel or `dune users:passwd`.

## What the panel provides

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## Admin panel

The admin panel is available at `/admin` (or your configured `admin.path`) automatically via `mountDuneAdmin()`. On first run, a default admin account is created and the password written to `.dune/admin/admin-password.txt`. Read the file, then delete it and change the password in the admin UI.
The admin panel is available at `/admin` (or your configured `admin.path`) automatically via `mountDuneAdmin()`. Dune creates no default admin, so create the first one before you log in: `dune users:create admin@example.com --role admin --password-prompt`, or set `DUNE_ADMIN_EMAIL` and `DUNE_ADMIN_PASSWORD` for the first boot. See [Creating the first admin](/docs/administration#creating-the-first-admin).

The admin panel is fully functional in headless mode: create and edit pages, manage users, view metrics, configure plugins.

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