# Non-interactive setup

The first ime you run `evennia start` (just after having created the database), you will be asked to interactively insert the superuser username, email and password. If you are deploying Evennia as part of an automatic build script, you don’t want to enter this information manually.

You can have the superuser be created automatically by passing environment variables to your build script:

- `EVENNIA_SUPERUSER_USERNAME`

- `EVENNIA_SUPERUSER_PASSWORD`

- `EVENNIA_SUPERUSER_EMAIL` is optional. If not given, empty string is used.

These envvars will only be used on the very first server start and then ignored. For example:

    EVENNIA_SUPERUSER_USERNAME=myname EVENNIA_SUPERUSER_PASSWORD=mypwd evennia start