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I was about to ask the very same thing - though at a slightly different point in the system. Was bout to piggyback since the solution could be entwined but thought a separate post would be tidier http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,10090.0.html

Let me make sure I have this right.

Say we create all of our members on the CiviCRM side with the individual form, and make setup their memberships. We could then we can pull a membership report displaying the first and last name, and email address, then use that module to import that membership list. Then we can use the Synchronize Drupal Users function to link the profiles. Then, because we have the membership determine user roles, we would use the CiviMember Role Sync function.

Seems easy enough. Thanks for the help!

Am I missing something here? I understood that if you create via User Import - or any othr method = drupal will synch the user to the civicrm contact with the same email address.

I'm planning to do this too, so I'm curious - how will you manage the process of telling your users how to log in?  Presumably the user import will create a password for them....?  You could have drupal send them an account activation email, but that would come a bit out of the blue.  Would you be able to send them an email via civicrm, that tells them their account details and password, or would that not be possible yet because the records are not synched up?  Maybe I need to send an announcement via civicrm first, followed by an account activation email...?  Any better ideas?

The user -> contact linkage is not created on User Import. It is created on any one of these events:
- user record created via Register form
- user record created by Admin view new user form
- CiviCRM Admin >> Synch Users to Contacts

Just to be clear, my experience is that if I export from civicrm, then use User Import, the synching happens automagically.

So maybe that is covered by one of those above options, but not sure that it is.

Final (?) update on this.

We have found that the module userplus http://drupal.org/project/userplus is a good solution for when you want to add a Drupal Account to a CiviCRM record (until someone like us cough up for the proper solution of having a 'button' on the contact page - which I guess could just be to add a button to point to this ;-) )

So all that is required is to copy the email from CiviCRM contact record, click on to your Nav Block link to the userplus screen, paste in email, create username and decide if you need to notify.

Userplus also lets you set it you want to add people to an Organic Group or a Role.

This for us is a better route than copying email and clicking on user/user/create since we usually have CiviCRM profiles there - which means that any fields that we leave empty overwrite existing info on the contacts record.

The solutions depend on which Drupal version.

D6 User Import is good.

D7 - I have tried the UIF module but hit some problems with it and haven't retried. Migrate and Feeds are the other options I see pushed but both seem to be fairly large blunt instruments. I particular want to add people to OG at the same time, and while UIF had a OG tack on in D6 i haven't spotted anything for D7

There is now an option in 'actions' on the Contacts record to 'create CMS account' which helps for one offs.