# createsuperuser fails

**URL:** <https://community.taiga.io/t/createsuperuser-fails/4981>\
**Category:** Troubleshooting\
**Created:** [January 27, 2025, 11:36am UTC](https://community.taiga.io/t/createsuperuser-fails/4981 "2025-01-27T11:36:18Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 11:36am UTC](https://community.taiga.io/t/createsuperuser-fails/4981/1 "2025-01-27T11:36:18Z")

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After cloning the taiga repo i want to create the superuser, using  
`sudo ./taiga-manage.sh createsuperuser`

I get the error:  
django.db.utils.OperationalError: connection to server at “taiga-db” (172.19.0.4), port 5432 failed: FATAL: password authentication failed for user “taiga”

I removed all containers, volumes and images using:  
sudo docker rm -vf $(sudo docker ps -aq)  
sudo docker rmi -f $(sudo docker images -aq)

Then i re-launched the installation:  
sudo ./launch-all.sh

I see all the images pulled and containers started:  
Running 117/117  
✔ taiga-async Pulled 58.3s  
✔ taiga-async-rabbitmq Pulled 30.7s  
✔ penpot-frontend Pulled 65.5s  
✔ taiga-back Pulled 58.3s  
✔ taiga-db Pulled 46.9s  
✔ penpot-backend Pulled 72.5s  
✔ taiga-events Pulled 17.6s  
✔ penpot-redis Pulled 38.1s  
✔ penpot-exporter Pulled 74.8s  
✔ taiga-events-rabbitmq Pulled 30.7s  
✔ taiga-front Pulled 4.7s  
✔ taiga-protected Pulled 14.4s  
✔ penpot-postgres Pulled 58.5s  
✔ taiga-gateway Pulled 28.3s  
[+] Running 14/14  
✔ Container taiga-docker-taiga-protected-1 Started 5.2s  
✔ Container taiga-docker-penpot-exporter-1 Started 4.9s  
✔ Container taiga-docker-taiga-db-1 Healthy 9.7s  
✔ Container taiga-docker-taiga-front-1 Started 4.1s  
✔ Container taiga-docker-taiga-events-rabbitmq-1 Started 5.2s  
✔ Container taiga-docker-penpot-postgres-1 Started 4.6s  
✔ Container taiga-docker-penpot-redis-1 Started 4.2s  
✔ Container taiga-docker-taiga-async-rabbitmq-1 Started 4.3s  
✔ Container taiga-docker-taiga-events-1 Started 10.6s  
✔ Container taiga-docker-taiga-async-1 Started 11.9s  
✔ Container taiga-docker-taiga-back-1 Started 11.4s  
✔ Container taiga-docker-penpot-backend-1 Started 9.0s  
✔ Container taiga-docker-taiga-gateway-1 Started 12.5s  
✔ Container taiga-docker-penpot-frontend-1 Started

And all seems to be up:  
sudo docker ps  
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES  
4d3cab29679c penpotapp/frontend:latest “/bin/bash /entrypoi…” 10 minutes ago Up 10 minutes 8080/tcp, 0.0.0.0:9001-\>80/tcp, [::]:9001-\>80/tcp taiga-docker-penpot-frontend-1  
a27427177f93 nginx:1.19-alpine “/docker-entrypoint.…” 10 minutes ago Up 10 minutes 0.0.0.0:9000-\>80/tcp, [::]:9000-\>80/tcp taiga-docker-taiga-gateway-1  
d9d4aa8ef2c8 taigaio/taiga-events:latest “./docker/entrypoint…” 10 minutes ago Up 10 minutes 8888/tcp taiga-docker-taiga-events-1  
ef646eeb4418 taigaio/taiga-back:latest “/taiga-back/docker/…” 10 minutes ago Up 10 minutes 8000/tcp taiga-docker-taiga-async-1  
916a12e27b4f rabbitmq:3.8-management-alpine “docker-entrypoint.s…” 10 minutes ago Up 10 minutes 4369/tcp, 5671-5672/tcp, 15671-15672/tcp, 15691-15692/tcp, 25672/tcp taiga-docker-taiga-events-rabbitmq-1  
10e381199450 taigaio/taiga-front:latest “/docker-entrypoint.…” 10 minutes ago Up 10 minutes 80/tcp taiga-docker-taiga-front-1  
bdac378c8cd2 taigaio/taiga-protected:latest “./docker/entrypoint…” 10 minutes ago Up 10 minutes 8003/tcp taiga-docker-taiga-protected-1  
19c5e6851a84 redis:6 “docker-entrypoint.s…” 10 minutes ago Up 10 minutes 6379/tcp taiga-docker-penpot-redis-1  
85f7f6239c2b rabbitmq:3.8-management-alpine “docker-entrypoint.s…” 10 minutes ago Up 10 minutes 4369/tcp, 5671-5672/tcp, 15671-15672/tcp, 15691-15692/tcp, 25672/tcp taiga-docker-taiga-async-rabbitmq-1  
115fe881d169 postgres:12.3 “docker-entrypoint.s…” 10 minutes ago Up 10 minutes (healthy) 5432/tcp taiga-docker-taiga-db-1  
68ec7e036920 postgres:13 “docker-entrypoint.s…” 10 minutes ago Up 10 minutes 5432/tcp taiga-docker-penpot-postgres-1  
16e1218db73b penpotapp/exporter:latest “node app.js” 10 minutes ago Up 10 minutes taiga-docker-penpot-exporter-1

But still creating the superuser fails… Please help