You could enable self-registration.

in some instancers I do that personman but there are times when it's not suitable like a project where I need to give 20 schools 25 user accounst each

Ok, I see. It shouldn't be too hard to write a script that creates the rows in the users table. How would you want it to work? You would feed the script the number of users you want to create and some criteria for naming the new users and creating passwords (newuser1, newuser2, or something), and then it would need to output it as a table or CSV or something, right? Let me know if I'm getting warmer.

not only are you warmer personman, you hit the nail right on the head

I've created a 40 user 40 blog system mostly by tweaking file in notepad and then importing to MySQL. Still had to do a lot of repetative back office drudge to give users passwords and permissions but now this is done I could export the tables and reuse. I wonder if I should post these files somewhere here as of possible use for educational use. Just generic usenames and passwords but the users can log on and change.