In User Registration, there is an advanced option that instructs the registration code to “Generate random user passwords”.
Where are the passwords written to?
Subject: Advanced User Registration option
As far as I know, the random password isn’t written anywhere. It’s just added to the password field when registering a user and you as the admin have to make note of it and let the user know it’s password.
Subject: RE: Advanced User Registration option
Hmm… I plan on registering 300 users this way. I’d have to write down each one? Doesn’t make too much sense; you’re better off generating your own random password in the input file.
Well, thanks for the quick reply. --JG
Subject: RE: Advanced User Registration option
In this case, you could register persons from a file, specifying a (different) password for each of them.
Have a look at the admin help, “Registering users from a text file”.
Subject: Advanced User Registration option
When you register a user locally, the information is stored in the usereg.nsf database.
I suppose if you import the users, register them, with the option to leave the users in the registration queue (Under options button), you could then make a copy of the usereg.nsf db and use it to refer to when notifying users.
I did something very similar to this serveral years back when I had to import over a 1000 users from cc:Mail.
Subject: RE: Advanced User Registration option
Huh, quite embarrassing, that I didn’t even know about this.
So, just to make a small point here: It’s userreg.nsf, not usereg.nsf. 