The acl_users folder object has a method: _addUser(self,name,password,confirm_pw,[roles],[domains],REQUEST=None) I'm pretty sure confirm_pw is the last required argument. Wherever your data comes from, iterate over it and call this method ~1300 times. Setting up 1300 user accounts is easy... it's the *administration* of that many accounts that'll get you. You may want to think about setting up tools to administer those accounts without having to open acl_users in the manage_edit interface. Getting anything done with that many objects in a folder can be a bit tedious. HTH, Dylan At 04:26 AM 10/19/2002 +0000, you wrote:

Hi I would like to set up a zope site for my school with user profiles and authentication (1200 high school students in my London based school). At the moment I have a php/mysql solution. How do I set up 1300 users (100 teacher accounts)? I don't fancy adding manually into acl_users?

Suneil

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I've used the following as an external method to import users into acl_users. Mark ----- import string def addAuthUsers(self, REQUEST, infile='/home1/sepg/auth.txt'): """ import users from infile, a space delimited file... """ #output - just used to let me know who got imported. output=open('/home1/sepg/userout.txt','w') infile=open( infile ,'r') output.write('opened %s\n'%infile) for line in infile.readlines(): line=string.strip(line) (name,password)=string.split(line,' ') try: self.acl_users.manage_users(submit='Add',REQUEST={'name':name,'password ':password,'confirm':password,'roles':['member',]}) output.write("added user name=%s, password=%s\n"%(name,password)) except: output.write("couldn't add user name=%s, password=%s\n"%(name,password) ) Suneil Basu wrote:

Hi I would like to set up a zope site for my school with user profiles and authentication (1200 high school students in my London based school). At the moment I have a php/mysql solution. How do I set up 1300 users (100 teacher accounts)? I don't fancy adding manually into acl_users?

Suneil

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