Forum OpenACS Development: Autogenerating users

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1: Autogenerating users
Posted by Mattia Righetti on 10/31/14 02:37 PM
Dear developers,

If I have a list of people in a table (name, surname, ecc...), is there a way to autogenerate usernames and passwords for OpenACS?

Thank you in advance,
Mattia

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2: Re: Autogenerating users (response to 1)
Posted by Benjamin Brink on 10/31/14 02:48 PM
Hello Mattia,

from an admin user, one can use the interface at:

/acs-admin/users

click link "Add a batch of users".

Via tcl there is:

auth::create_user

cheers,
Ben

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5: Re: Autogenerating users (response to 2)
Posted by Mattia Righetti on 10/31/14 05:06 PM
If I do like you suggested then I don't know the password of each user...
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3: Re: Autogenerating users (response to 1)
Posted by Neophytos Demetriou on 10/31/14 03:30 PM
Try this:

SELECT acs_user__new(null, 'user', now(), null, null, null, 'someusername', 'mailto:someone@example.com'; , null, 'somefirstname' , 'somelastname' , 'somepassword' , 'somesalt' , null, 't', null );

The order of arguments is as follows: user_id,object_type, creation_date, creation_user, creation_ip, authority_id, username, email, url, first_names, last_name, password, salt, screen_name, email_verified_p, context_id

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4: Re: Autogenerating users (response to 3)
Posted by Mattia Righetti on 10/31/14 05:05 PM
Yes, the problem is that the database stores the password already encrypted and I'm not sure that this function also encrypts the password...
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6: Re: Autogenerating users (response to 1)
Posted by Mattia Righetti on 10/31/14 05:07 PM
Ok, I solved. Basically I copied the program user-batch-add.tcl and I modified. Now everything works. Thank you anyway!