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I need to add about 50 users quickly to the system for a project.
Anyone know if I can simply add them to the "authors" table in the database?
How is the password hashed (as ideally i'd like to set each one different).

Thanks,

There was a thread in german. Maybe it helps you.
http://board.s9y.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=19559