Default Admin User on First Login

Questions
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I want to avoid having a real user become the default owner/admin for the instance and instead have a dedicated admin/service account for initial setup and management.

Is this possible out-of-the-box, or does it require custom configuration or scripting? I tried the below, but that didn’t seem to work->

N8N_BASIC_AUTH_ACTIVE:

  value: "true"

N8N_BASIC_AUTH_USER:

  value: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])

N8N_BASIC_AUTH_PASSWORD:

  valueFrom:

    secretKeyRef:

      name: n8n-basic-auth

      key: password
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Hi @akshika.sharma
By design, the first user who completes the registration flow becomes the instance owner. If you want a dedicated service or admin account, you need to perform the first login yourself using that account before giving access to other users. In some versions, there are specific user management environment variables available, but Basic Auth alone will not define the internal admin user.

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Thankyou @tamy.santos .

From enterprise deployment perspective . I want to avoid having a real user become the default owner/admin for the instance and instead have a dedicated admin/service account for initial setup and management.

Is this possible out-of-the-box, or does it require custom configuration or scripting

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welcome @akshika.sharma
this still requires following the default registration flow, as there is no out-of-the-box way to predefine a different owner; the only supported approach is to create and use a dedicated admin or service account for the very first registration, since anything beyond that would require custom scripting or direct database manipulation, which is not officially supported.

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