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Hi

Is there a way to synchronize contacts to become Drupal users (rather than the other way around)? I need to give people the ability to edit their organisation's details (There will only be one user per organisation so the Drupal user will be linked to an Organisation contact, allowing me - I hope - to create a profile to limit the fields to be edited).
However I have several thousand organisations (imported from another database and now sitting happily in Civi) for whom I will now need to create linked drupal user accounts.
Even being able to do this individually from each contact's record would be useful (we are having to phone most of the organisations as it is).
I'm fairly sure I can do this in a batch by working with the drupal users table and the civicrm_uf_match table but just wondered if anyone else had done this, and how?

Thanks

Matthew de Gale
matthew@sangonet.org.za

Thank you very much. And then I would just update the civicrm_uf_match table for civi integration or would you recommend I even run the  Users-to_contacts synchronization since the email addresses would be identical?

Thanks again,

Matthew