Nextcloud use cases for a school

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As an admin, I want to set up a range of users by batch creating them from a CSV file (with email addresses) and automatically generate initial passwords, which are emailed to the newly created users.

There have been examples here on the forum:

Batch adding users (e.g. from list file)

Hello! I think it would be great to be able to batch add users (in groups) from list files. My use case is that I would like to add my students (groups for different classes) such that I can easily share files with them. But I would rather not have to manually add 200 students per year. Instead, I could think of an import function that reads in data from a csv file (name, user name, initial password, group) to automatically create users from within nextcloud. I have found suggestions of doing…

Importing Users from .csv file and adding Users to different groups

Hello everybody, I am pretty new to Nextcloud and also to Linux. I looking to find a way to import users without using the web-interface or adding them manually via occ. I managed to write a script that reads a csv-file and adds the users in there to groups, adds the email and adds a quota. The problem is sometimes users are in more, sometimes in less groups. I managed to add different groups by four variables for four groups. But this only works when each field for the groups is set. When …

Import Many Users

Hi I am new to OwnCloud err I mean NextCloud (I like where the Nextcloud project is going and its attitude) I want to import multiple users at once, is there a way to do this say with a CSV files?

Mass user import app/script

Hey guys ! My last thread was about sending mail to adressbook from contact app and what i want wasnt possible. Now I’ve another question for you. I saw few topic about that but i would like to know if you have a new solution. So, i would like import 1600 ~user in nextcloud, i wont to create an account for every people. Did you know if an app can do that or if a script exist ? I have a .csv with display name and mail of people ready to import but i dont know how to proceed… Thank you for …

For all the rest, user management in Nextcloud is for rather small numbers. Larger organisations ususally use LDAP or similar (you can authenticate Nextcloud against this LDAP). And then you can use mailinglist for the mails (hook it up with LDAP as well).

For schools, there are also example setup such as: linuxmuster.net 6.2 documentation — linuxmuster.net 6.2.0 documentation