Thread:Project:Support desk/Is there a way to preemptively create a user account?

I have a group of people who will be accessing my wiki in the near future. They currently do not have accounts. I would like to have them be in a particular user group, before they login for the first time. This way they will have the permissions they need without having to login and then ask to be added to a user group. Is there some way to pre-populate the user's accounts? I'm looking at the user table and it looks like I could populate new rows there and in user_groups to make this happen. Does anyone have any suggestions or ideas? Thanks!