How can I add many users with known passwords - rocket.chat

Question

I'm setting up a rocket chat server in an air gapped testbed where I'll have thousands of automated users talking to each other to generate network traffic. I had seen the user import via CSV documented here. That lets me create my users, but not with pre-assigned passwords. Looking in programs/server/packages/rocketchat_importer-csv.js I see that it is setting the password to a formulaic string including the current date.
That's as good as a random password for my needs.
Is there a way to, say, include another column in the CSV where I can assign the password for each user?
I installed it via snaps on Ubuntu 16.04.4 if that affects anything.

Answer 1

In the end, I wrote a python script to do the job making a web request for each line of the CSV. Here's what I came up with:
import csv
import json
import requests
def main(csv_path, admin_user, admin_pass, base_url):
"""
Read the given CSV of the format:
loginname, email, real name, password
and create all the users described in it in the Rocket.Chat server
available at `base_url`
"""
login_json = json.dumps({'username': admin_user, 'password': admin_pass})
response = requests.post(base_url + '/api/v1/login', data=login_json)
data = response.json()['data']
token = data['authToken']
userid = data['userId']
headers = {
'X-Auth-Token': token,
'X-User-Id': userid,
'Content-type': 'application/json',
}
with open(csv_path) as raw:
reader = csv.reader(raw)
for user in reader:
request = {
'username': user[0],
'email': user[1],
'name': user[2],
'password': user[3],
}
ret = requests.post(base_url + '/api/v1/users.create',
data=json.dumps(request), headers=headers)