Topic: User Import

[Matt Frazer]

Great product guys!

I'm looking for a utility to ease the addition of several thousand users into an e-smith server. Ideally mailboxes, as well as LDAP information (Name, Company, Etc...) would be created from a database, a csv text file, or other source.

Anyone traveled this road before?

-mjf

[Kim Morrison]

Hi Matt,

Thanks for the post!

Adding a user is done in perl in the e-smith manager.  If you elect to do this yourself, you should review:

/home/e-smith/web-functions/users

and in particular study the function:

"performCreateUser"

Ultimately, the idea is to add users to the file:

/home/e-smith/accounts

and then run:

/sbin/e-smith/signal-event user-create "user-account"

once for every new user you add, where "user-account" is the new user's account name.  

This can be automated in a fairly straightforward way.  The LDAP information is automatically updated as part of this process;  you might add a few users manually and then look at their data in the /home/e-smith/accounts file to see where the user and LDAP information goes.

If you don't know Perl and/or if you are also planning on not using the e-smith software completely as intended out of the box, I do recommend working with us under our e-smith Developer Partnership, which costs $1,500.  

Thanks again for the post!  Good luck in however you decide to approach it. Let us know how it comes out!

Kim