This page will take a text file, stored in NCSA-style database format (with or without password encryption) and convert it to DBM format. You can use it to add users in batch mode to an existing database, or the script will create a database for you. First, you should choose a file to be converted to DBM format. The file should have one user to a line. The username should come first, followed by a colon, and then the password, for example:

user1:password1
user2:password2
user3:password3
You should give an absolute pathname to the file. Next, you should specify whether the passwords are already encrypted, or if they need to be encrypted. If you are using this form to process users in batch mode, you will probably want to leave the passwords unencrypted in the file, and have the converter encrypt them for you.

Choose a name for the target database. This name will be used throughout the rest of the forms to refer to the database.

If the database does not exist, it will be created for you. Sometimes, a user may be entered twice into a database. You can choose how the convertor will behave under this circumstance: either it can overwrite the existing user, or it can leave the user unchanged and keep track of those users. The administrative password makes it so that you need to enter a password before you can make any changes to a database. If you do not plan to add any more users to the database, you may want to add the administrative password now, otherwise, you may want to wait until you are done adding users to do so.