Method 3 (source compile) instructs users to pre-create config.yaml,
but does not mention that doing so disables the setup wizard — the
only code path that creates the initial admin account. Users following
the README end up with a running server and an empty users table, and
login fails with "invalid email or password".
The default.admin_email / default.admin_password fields in config.yaml
are loaded into the config struct but never read by any code path
(setup.SetupConfig.Admin is tagged yaml:"-"), so they cannot serve as
an alternative way to seed the admin.
Add a "Creating the Admin Account" subsection to Method 3 in all three
language READMEs (EN/CN/JA), explaining the wizard dependency and two
workarounds: let the wizard generate config.yaml, or temporarily move
config.yaml aside to trigger the wizard on first run.
Related: #521 (docker variant of the same symptom), #2617, #2350.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
