How to create LDAP users in bulk on Linux (UBUNTU)

On the page that describes the OpenLDAP server, there are a couple of examples of how to add groups and users.

Keep in mind that:

• before you can add a user to a group, the group must be defined
• before you can add a group, there must be an ou (organizational unit) defined to store groups. Let's call this Groups.
• before you can add a user, there must be an ou to store people in; call this People.

The aforementioned page (under "Modifying and populating your database") gives examples of all these. The basic steps are:

• create a text file defining all of the above;
• use the ldapadd command to process this text file.