Is there a way to precreate some AD users on the dnn site without asking them to login/logout?

We have a couple (50 +/-) users we have to setup permissions and roles for and I'd prefer not having to ask them all to do the login/logout just for this.

Any ideas?

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Vicenç Masanas
Banyoles, Girona - Spain

   

I haven't tried this so it would need to be tested first but, theoretically, you should be able to manually create the account in the DOMAIN\Username format. I think as long as the username and email are correct it would work because the password that's stored in DotNetNuke (as far as the provider is concerned) is really just a placeholder. It's only there because a user needs to have a password but the provider always verifies against the AD for the password.

Dan, it's still a fair amount of work but in your case you should be able to write a sproc that gets the users you want, the portal id that you want add them to, and then add a record into the UserPortals table. I don't have my source code handy but I have to do something similar in the provider for situations where the user belongs to another portal. The user object is already there, it just needs to be assigned to the new portal.

Just did a quick google search before lunch. Mitchel Sellers has a blog post on creating a user via SQL.. http://www.mitchelsellers.com/blogs/2007/05/14/creating-a-standard-dotnetnuke-user-via-sql.aspx. In your case the user already exists but if you look at the last two sql statements you should be able to use those to add the user to the portal and make them an administrator (changing the registered user role to the administrator role)