[Koha] passwords

[Chris Nighswonger]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Chris Nighswonger
<cnighswonger at foundations.edu> wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> 2010/7/14 John Simonds <simonj2 at sage.edu>:
>> We have uploaded patron records, but koha auto generates passwords, how do
>> we get around this?  Will we have to go in to each record and create a
>> password or is there a way to do this in a batch?
>
> IIRC there is no way to do supply your own passwords in the bulk
> upload tool. You may want to open a feature request for this at
> bugs.koha-community.org. I worked in that area of the code back at the
> end of last year, and such a feature would not be too hard to add.

I'm mistaken on this. You should be able to add passwords by suppling
them in the 'password' column of your csv.

Kind Regards,
Chris