diff --git a/scripts/set-admin-data.js b/scripts/set-admin-data.js
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+/* eslint-disable flowtype/require-valid-file-annotation */
+
+const fs = require('fs');
+const readline = require('readline');
+
+// Create an interface for reading input
+const rl = readline.createInterface({
+  input: process.stdin,
+  output: process.stdout,
+});
+
+const data = {};
+
+rl.question('username: ', value1 => {
+  data.username = value1;
+
+  rl.question('password: ', value2 => {
+    data.password = value2;
+
+    rl.question('user id: ', value3 => {
+      data.id = value3;
+
+      writeFiles(data);
+
+      // Close the readline interface
+      rl.close();
+    });
+  });
+});
+
+function writeFiles(credentials) {
+  try {
+    const userCredentials = {
+      username: credentials.username,
+      password: credentials.password,
+      usingIdentityCredentials: true,
+    };
+    const userCredentialsJSON = JSON.stringify(userCredentials, null, 2);
+    fs.writeFileSync(
+      'keyserver/secrets/user_credentials.json',
+      userCredentialsJSON,
+    );
+
+    // Create configs containing authoritative keyservers data.
+    // Because we have different mechanisms for fetching configs,
+    // we need this config in two places
+
+    const authoritativeKeyserver = {
+      authoritativeKeyserverID: credentials.id,
+    };
+    const authoritativeKeyserverJSON = JSON.stringify(
+      authoritativeKeyserver,
+      null,
+      2,
+    );
+    fs.writeFileSync(
+      'native/facts/authoritative_keyserver.json',
+      authoritativeKeyserverJSON,
+    );
+    fs.writeFileSync(
+      'keyserver/facts/authoritative_keyserver.json',
+      authoritativeKeyserverJSON,
+    );
+  } catch (e) {
+    console.error(
+      'Failure creating configuration files: ' +
+        'admin data could not be correctly written',
+    );
+    throw e;
+  }
+}