Import User Accounts

Basically I want to import user info from excel to workgroup manager. Details below...
I get user info from a DB that generates an excel spreadsheet with First Name, Last Name, Email Address. I add a new column for short name using first initial and lastname. How do I go about importing this info into workgroup manager? I've tried saving as tab delimited txt file and then using the import funtion but it does'nt work. Can someone tell me the format to making it work?
Thanks!!

Hi leadstrand
You could have a look at passenger
" 1. Import Database Text
Passenger takes comma, colon, or tab-delimited text, basic LDIF, Mac OS X Server & ASIP XML, or folder names of a user directory and imports names and other information to prepare for import into a server or other user file management functions"
Should do what you want.
Cheers

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