How can I define the users email-address while adding a user via occ

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#1

HI,

How can the e-mail address of the user be entered when creating a user account via occ command?

Like the following example:

sudo -u apache php occ user:add
--display-name "Bastard Operator from Hell" --group "friends" --email
"bofh@mailserver.guru" bofh

I have to be able to enter the e-mail address somehow so that Nextcloud can send the invitation or password set mail automatically. If I enter the new user via the GUI, it works very well. But I don’t want to get tendosynovitis on my right mouse hand from the many clicks, but do it all from the console.

Any ideas?

Best regards
Django

#2

Perhaps you could run this command immediately after creating the user?
sudo -u apache php occ user:setting bofh settings email "bofh@mailserver.guru"

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#3

Thank you very much for your advice - Wonderful, you give me a great idea! :star_struck:

Do you know how I can send this email “Welcome on board” with the link to the password to users I created with the command occ and assigned an email address. (If I create the user via the Admin GUI, it will be sent automatically - but how can I do this on the console with occ?

#4

Well, I have now found a solution for myself and have killed two things.

I have written a small bash-script, which gets itself, username, full name, email address and group membership from a csv file, so that the user accounts are created and sends the user a message via email (plain text mail) with information about the first login and generation of a password.

So I also solved the problem with the unreadable HTML messages, which the recipients can’t read, because they have to use LotusNotes as MUA.

Thank you again for your decisive tip!

#5

Hi could you send me the bash-script? @Django I have exactly the same problem especially to get the data from a csv file and then send the users welcome messages…

Thank you!