How start ejabberdctl from bash script properly? - bash

Question

I need to register many thousands of users in ejabberd from csv file. For this, I wrote a simple script.
#!/bin/sh
OLDIFS=$IFS
IFS=','
[ ! -f $INPUT ] && { echo "$INPUT file not found"; exit 99; }
while read username domain pass p1 p2 p3 p4
do
echo "ejabberdctl register $username $domain $pass"
ejabberdctl register $username $domain $pass
done < users.csv
IFS=$OLDIFS
But in the end, the answer is: Error: cannot_register
If I just run the line copied from the output, everything is ok. The user is created normally.

Answer 1

This is just a little trick for later: once you get your loop working, if you consider ejabberdctl is too slow, you can try using the ReST API. That should be a lot faster when doing many requests.
Configure temporarily something like this (remember to remove this when you finished):
listen:
-
port: 5280
module: ejabberd_http
tls: false
request_handlers:
/api: mod_http_api
api_permissions:
"console commands":
from:
- ejabberd_ctl
- mod_http_api
who: all
what: "*"
modules:
mod_http_api: {}
Then execute this in a shell to register an account:
curl 'localhost:5280/api/register?user=user2&host=localhost&password=somepass123'