Creating new opendirectory users from script or terminal

[dlepiane]

Hi,

What is the easiest way to script the creation of opendirectory users?

At our site one of the admins, usually me, gets a form filled out and emailed for each new user including basic info (full name) and some special info (the desired shortname and when the account should expire). I have several helper scripts for things like choosing a random password, creating the user’s homedirectory on the NFS server, adding the user to the site mailing-list, and optionally setting up mail forwarding.

What I don’t have is a script which could create the actual user account. What is the best way to do this? I can’t just do “useradd” for od users, right? Do I have to create a delimited file and feed it to dsimport?

TIA

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