[JDEV] Pre-registering and subcribing users for corporate intranet

[Flynn, David]

What is the best way to automate pre-registering employees accounts and
subscribe every individual to every other individual (into a group called
Employees) without having to go through the normal subscribe/subscribed
process?  Because there seems to be a generated hash code in each user.xml
file, the brute force method of copying/editing these files does not work.
I downloaded Jabberbeans and was thinking of writing a client specifically
for this purpose.  A bonus would be to integrate LDAP somehow since that is
where our user info is stored.  Has anyone gone down this road?

As for buddy lists, can you accomplish this by modifying the .xml files on
the server or am I going to run into problems trying to do this?

- Dave