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So i am attempting to import contacts into civicrm and i started by importing a list of email addresses in drupal. Once i have those imported i am using import contacts inside of civicrm to put the contacts in. When i import contacts it creates contact records but does not match the users to the drupal users that i imported. I have attempted to use a few different dedupe rules that only use email address to match to the contact but i get the same result every time. Am i completing these steps correctly to import users?

that does not help. that basically back-fills people that are in drupal that are not in civicrm. i need it to do the opposite. When i import people into civicrm it should create a user account for them in drupal.

Alternatively, if you have an ongoing need to do this, you should look at https://civicrm.org/blogs/petednz/creating-drupal-users-made-easy-single-or-multiple-contacts-civi-imports-and-webforms.