Can't create Keycloak 17.0.0 admin user

Question

I installed Keycloak 17.0.0 but not able to create admin user. I followed this document. When I access Keycloak page, it is showing "you need local access to create the initial admin user". Screenshot is here - Keycloak. Also I didn't find the add-user-keycloak script in Keycloak 17.0.0. I am quite new to this. Can anyone help on how to create the initial admin user?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I to have been trying to play around with Keycloak 17, and have found it far from easy to get it to work as I expected.

I am trying to get it work on remote server,where its impossible to login on localhost. To create the admin user I followed the information in the Keycloak document at KeyCloak documents, see the section called Creating the first administrator

You set the following envronmental variables

export KEYCLOAK_ADMIN='username'
export KEYCLOAK_ADMIN_PASSWORD='password'
bin/kc.[sh|bat] start

Were username and password are strings for username and password.

Another problem I had was getting Keycloak to work on my server haggis on port 8085. My solution was to invoke it as follows.

./kc.sh start-dev --http-port=8085 --http-host=haggis --db-url-host=haggis --db-username=kc --hostname=haggis:8085 --hostname-admin=haggis:8085 --hostname-strict-backchannel=true --db-url-database=postgresql --db-username='kcuser'

This command line instructs Keycloak to start up on the server haggis, at port 8085, using a postgres database with a database user called kcuser in development mode.

My largest problem was working out that you had to include the port number in the hostname style arguments.

Once everything is working you can invoke it as

http://haggis:8085/admin/master/console/#/realms/master

Answer 2

Ok, someone far cleverer than I figured this out:

export KEYCLOAK_ADMIN=admin
export KEYCLOAK_ADMIN_PASSWORD=admin
sudo -E bin/kc.sh start-dev

https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/discussions/10262

But don't use admin/admin of course...