OCC add:user from csv file shell script

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1

Hi,

I’ve installed owncloud 10.8.0.4 on OVH VPS.
I try to import users from a csv file. I wrote a shell script for that. I would like to import users with only email (no password) so that an email is sent to them for creating their password.

According to documentation :

A password is not required , if an email address is provided. If a password is not provided, a temporary one will be generated. It cannot be set to 0 .

here is the shell script i wrote :

#!/bin/bash
while IFS=, read -r username displayname email group1 group2
do
  echo "création de l'utilisateur $username avec l'email $email displayname $displayname group1 $group1 group2 $group2"
  sudo -u www-data php /var/www/owncloud/occ user:add --display-name "$displayname" --email $email --group "$group1" --group "$group2" $username
done < users.csv

Steps to reproduce

  1. execute script : sh ./script.sh

Expected behaviour

users should be created

Actual behaviour

password is asked for user

Server configuration

Operating system: Debian 10

Web server: apache 2

Database:

PHP version: 7.4.24

ownCloud version: 10.8.0.4

2

Hi,

No answer ? Did i forget to put something to explain my issue ?
Please help…

Fred.

3

I cannot help, unfortunately. I think the documentation doesn’t match the real situation here, the password request cannot be avoided.

4

So it’s not possible to create users with only email (no password) with occ and then an invitation email is sent to them to choose their password ?
We must use web interface for this scenario ?

5

Hi fredleput,

after having reviewed the code I can confirm this option is not possible with the occ command. You may open a feature request at https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues/

As a workaround you could create a user with a random password, generate a password recovery link and send this in a custom email to your user, I.e.

$ export OC_PASS=verysecurepassword; sudo -E -u www-data php occ user:add --password-from-env --email exampleuser@example.com exampleuser
The user "exampleuser" was created successfully
Email address set to "exampleuser@example.com"

$ sudo -u www-data php occ user:resetpassword --output-link exampleuser
The password reset link is: http://owncloud/index.php/lostpassword/reset/form/3C7ifE8m7edEQ82bKPAU2/exampleuser

HTH

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Works like a charm if you use --send-email :
sudo -u www-data php occ user:resetpassword --send-email sampleuser

Thx a lot !

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7

I was aware about the send-email switch as well but your users might get confused when they receive a password reset email. So I offered the variant where you retrieve the link only which you could embed in a proper template.

Anyway, I’m glad this works for you :slight_smile:

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