Hi Erik, Seems that you registered with an existing email address, Try with a new one and take a look here : Optional Password Policy Enforcement <https://github.com/edx/edx-platform/wiki/Optional-Password-Policy-Enforcement>
Regards, mahyar On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 4:53 PM Erik Van de Water <eriks...@gmail.com> wrote: I have installed the eucalyptus 2 release of Open edX. From this Confluence page <https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/display/OpenOPS/Managing+OpenEdX+Tips+and+Tricks>, the command to create a new user is: sudo -u www-data /edx/bin/python.edxapp ./manage.py lms --settings aws create_user -e u...@example.com Running this created a traceback: root@ip-172-31-21-85:/edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform# sudo -u www-data /edx/bin/python.edxapp ./manage.py lms --settings aws create_user -e eriks...@gmail.com 2016-10-14 09:12:05,054 INFO 22863 [dd.dogapi] dog_stats_api.py:66 - Initializing dog api to use statsd: localhost, 8125 Traceback (most recent call last): File "./manage.py", line 116, in <module> execute_from_command_line([sys.argv[0]] + django_args) File "/edx/app/edxapp/venvs/edxapp/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 354, in execute_from_command_line utility.execute() File "/edx/app/edxapp/venvs/edxapp/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 346, in execute self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv) File "/edx/app/edxapp/venvs/edxapp/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 394, in run_from_argv self.execute(*args, **cmd_options) File "/edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/common/djangoapps/track/management/tracked_command.py", line 59, in execute super(TrackedCommand, self).execute(*args, **options) File "/edx/app/edxapp/venvs/edxapp/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 445, in execute output = self.handle(*args, **options) File "/edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/common/djangoapps/student/management/commands/create_user.py", line 99, in handle user, _, reg = _do_create_account(form) File "/edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/common/djangoapps/student/views.py", line 1484, in _do_create_account raise ValidationError(errors) django.core.exceptions.ValidationError: {'password': [u'A valid password is required'], 'email': [u'It looks like eriks...@gmail.com belongs to an existing account. Try again with a different email address.']} Any thoughts on solving this? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "General Open edX discussion" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/edx-code/cf223cb3-2a74-4a2f-a5de-5ae9315f4ab5%40googlegroups.com <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/edx-code/cf223cb3-2a74-4a2f-a5de-5ae9315f4ab5%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "General Open edX discussion" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/edx-code/CABCzmJKRYB37H3T_fhn35kN%2B3F9G1wK0LbP%2Bvi9gQbHkv7gxFA%40mail.gmail.com.