How do I make myself admin?

[VanillaChief]

Firstly, I wanted to say that your documentation is really well written. It is a complex system with a lot of moving parts, like you wrote, but it was really easy to set this up with Docker on my NAS with your guide. The only thing I don't understand is how to make myself admin. It states to run this command:

FEDIVERSE_USERNAME=your_user@your.domain.com RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake crossposter:make_admin

but something is missing because I can't just copy and paste it (with my username entered, of course) like the rest of the commands in the Docker guide. Maybe you could make the guide here more detailed?

[renatolond]

Hey, I'm not sure since I don't run it in docker myself, but I believe you could run the command by doing something like:

docker-compose run --rm web FEDIVERSE_USERNAME=your_user@your.domain.com RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake crossposter:make_admin

Can you try that and see if it works?

[rasos]

Environment variables need to be set with the -e option, so this is the way to make a user an admin with Docker:

 docker-compose run -e FEDIVERSE_USERNAME=your_user@your.domain.com --rm web bundle exec rake crossposter:make_admin

You might need to do a docker stop mastodon-twitter-poster_web_run_1 first if you started it with -d as a daemon.

[amatriain]

you can also run

docker exec -it web sh

to enter the docker container command shell. Once there you can run

FEDIVERSE_USERNAME=your_user@your.domain.com RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake crossposter:make_admin

and then exit to get back out of the container command line.