How do you bulk populate email address in OD?

I have a thousand or so current users in our OD and want to populate their email address (it doesn;t seem to get done on creation)
Email addresses are needed for auto emails in collab services
I don't know how to take a, say, csv file of user short names and related email addresses and have the records updated
Any ideas?

martinlevins wrote:
I have a thousand or so current users in our OD and want to populate their email address (it doesn;t seem to get done on creation)
Email addresses are needed for auto emails in collab services
I don't know how to take a, say, csv file of user short names and related email addresses and have the records updated
Any ideas?
The email address(es) itself will be created automatically and will be based on the users shortname(s) when email is enabled for that account. However I suspect you are referring to the email address field on the Info tab in Workgroup Manager.
I did quite some time ago write a utility that amongst other things did auto-fill this field based either on the users fullname or shortname fields. However it broke when Mac OS X 10.5 was released. (It would be I am sure be fixable.)
My utility was basically a GUI front-end to the Unix command-line tool 'ldapmodify', the scenario you would need to follow would be to get a list of user accounts, specifically their shortnames, and then have a script that for each one executes an appropriate ldapmodify command. You would be basically 'modifying' the ldap field 'EMailAddress' and setting it to the appropriate value.
You can run 'man ldapmodify' in the Terminal.app to get more details on how to use this command.
For those unaware, Apple's Open Directory is based on OpenLDAP which in turn uses LDAP and hence it is possible to access and modify many fields in Open Directory via generic LDAP commands. It is similarly possible to link other server software to via standard LDAP to Open Directory to authenticate users.

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