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would any one know of a way to sync previously migrated civi records to drupal user accounts, ie, automatically create those accounts once you;ve migrated the records into civi, sort of a reverse sync? Im aware of the syncing function and trying to go the other way.

thanks, that sounds like it could work, so i'm clear : you're saying to export those fields (containing first, last, and email) from civi into a csv file than concatenate within that file, then re-import onto the drupal side using the import user module?

we'll definitely try that...I wonder if that could work for any other type field we could initially export out of civi, in addition to first and last name, for example contact id if they have pre-existing member id numbers that we already have for the members in civi, I mean, you could probably concatenate on any given fields, right?

But you should also take the fact that it isn't a built-in function as a warning. Creating a contact in CiviCRM is fundamentally different from creating a drupal user account in terms of authority/ownership and also functionality. In other words - are you sure all those contacts want a drupal account and are going to use it?