How to mass create users

[Jim Hutchinson]

On Jan 23, 2008 11:33 AM, Joseph Hartman <jlhartman at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been reading a lot of recommendations for giving each student their own
> account on the terminal server but I am loathe to go through the user
> creation process dozens of times for each class. Is there a mass user
> creation method I don't know about? Upload a .csv or something? Thanks -joe
>

Joseph (and Barb I added you too since you asked about this),

I have attached a script that someone wrote for me for this exact
purpose. I'm not 100% sure this is the debugged version so if anyone
wants to proof it (or improve it) that would be welcome help. I did
use this to add about 30 generic user names on our server. And it does
just do generic accounts (like user001, user002 or whatever you
choose) and the same password for all. Of course, passwords could be
changed later by the users.

Hope that helps.
Jim

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