[rt-users] Scripted user creation

[Paulo Matos]

On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Jeremy Baumgartner wrote:

> Given:
>  A list of users and what groups they should be in.
> 
> We want:
>  Automatic creation/disabling of RT users according to the list of users
>  Automatic addition/deletion of users from groups according to lists
> 
> I've written a perl script to handle all the work of doing this, so we
> can run it every so often to generate accounts for new hires and disable
> for those leaving.  I'm using code from the script pointed to in the
> wiki: http://www.bestpractical.com/pub/rt/contrib/3.0/Other/rtadduser 
> Unfortunately, it does not work.  I recieve no errors, but nothing is
> changed in RT.  No users are created, and no users are disabled.
 
This is mostly done (not all) by 'rt-setup-database'

rt-setup-database --insert --datafile /path/to/datafile

'datafile' should be like 'initialdatafile', look at @Users definition.

Look at the 'rt-setup-database' code...

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