[Slashcode-general] Bulk-load users

[George C. <ga...@sp...>]

Hi,

Does anyone have a bulk-load script for users that they would share with
me?

We would like to mass load our organization's membership into Slash, so
that we can use the newsletter / headlines facility to communicate to the
users in place of a mailman mailing list.    

I've been hacking a bit with the createTestUsers script so that I can use
it to create a user,  but I'd also like to set the newsletter & headlines
flags, which it doesn't seem to handle.  It also creates a random
password, and we'd rather have manual control over that aspect.

(Our user community is fairly non-technical and some of the web
registration stuff has been a bit much for them.)

Another thing that I'd like to cobble together is a way to email
passwords to users on a regular basis, similar to the way that mailman
mails out list passwords on a monthly basis.   Passwords currently are
not "recoverable" - if I were to change the encryptPassword routine in
Data/Data.pm, to preserve the password in plain text, would that be
sufficient to eliminate the encryption?

Any other thoughts?

Thanks,
George Clark