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   calmatt2000
   Member
   Posted 9 years ago

   Hi guys!
   I am hosting a mediadrop for my school. Here is some of my problems.

   I need to create an user account for each of my school's students and teachers (about 1000 user). I try to add the user account by directly using SQL into the database. But I find that, the password was encrypt in mediadrop. So i can't set the difference password for each user. So I want to ask..

   1. can I disable the password encryption?
   2. If not, can the user change the password themselves(not admin user) ?
   3. Is there have other way to add many user as once?

   sorry for my poor English and thanks
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   Felix Schwarz
   MediaDrop developer
   Posted 9 years ago

   Yes, MediaDrop encrypts the plain text password so setting it directly with SQL is not really feasible. If you if you need to create a lot of user accounts quickly you can write a small Python script (check mediadrop.lib.cli).

   A more sophisticated solution would be to integrate existing accounts with LDAP or something similar. This would be a bit more work (check out mediadrop.lib.auth).

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