frontpage2002: how to mass add users to a subweb?

[ElginOutboard]

Help - our site host has helped to corrupt a members-only part of a site I'm
working on - a bad reload of FPSE2002 - all the security is hosted on the
live site as we didn't have a copy on a local PC. I have an access database
with the equivalent info that I can use to rebuild the security database for
this subweb - because it's a large number of users (over 1500) I obviously
don't want to be doing them one at a time via the FP web interface. Is there
a way to mass import security records via csv or such to speed up this
process?

 

[Ronx]

How is the security on the website accomplished?
If through MS SQL Server or Access database then there are utilities
that will repair or delete/restore the tables using data from Access -
Access is easier since you only have to upload a new database.
The same for MySQL (though I don't know any off hand - never used MySQL)
For text file based database a csv file should suffice, if correctly
formatted.

However, if the security is through the extensions then you are stuck
with the one at a time method - on Windows servers, server accounts have
to be made for each user, and on Unix the passwords are encrypted into
a hidden file - though your host should be able to recover this from
their backups.