diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 60175e8852..bb77b68ad5 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ answer newbie questions, and generally made Django that much better:
     David Ascher <http://ascher.ca/>
     Jökull Sólberg Auðunsson <jokullsolberg@gmail.com>
     Arthur <avandorp@gmail.com>
+    av0000@mail.ru
     David Avsajanishvili <avsd05@gmail.com>
     axiak@mit.edu
     Niran Babalola <niran@niran.org>
diff --git a/django/contrib/auth/management/__init__.py b/django/contrib/auth/management/__init__.py
index 5f9908be5f..8394bee5cd 100644
--- a/django/contrib/auth/management/__init__.py
+++ b/django/contrib/auth/management/__init__.py
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ def create_superuser(app, created_models, verbosity, **kwargs):
                 confirm = raw_input('Please enter either "yes" or "no": ')
                 continue
             if confirm == 'yes':
-                call_command("createsuperuser")
+                call_command("createsuperuser", interactive=True)
             break
 
 if 'create_permissions' not in [i.__name__ for i in dispatcher.getAllReceivers(signal=signals.post_syncdb)]:
diff --git a/django/contrib/auth/management/commands/createsuperuser.py b/django/contrib/auth/management/commands/createsuperuser.py
index ab6bd78d18..4299762c74 100644
--- a/django/contrib/auth/management/commands/createsuperuser.py
+++ b/django/contrib/auth/management/commands/createsuperuser.py
@@ -42,7 +42,8 @@ class Command(BaseCommand):
                 validators.isValidEmail(email, None)
             except validators.ValidationError:
                 raise CommandError("Invalid email address.")
-            password = ''
+
+        password = ''
 
         # Try to determine the current system user's username to use as a default.
         try: