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+We use the make_user_accounts.py script with the following scripts:
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+* `--passwords`: words.txt -- a txt file with ingredient words on each line to generate passwords with
+* `--from_file`: users.txt -- a txt file with a username on each line
+* `--servername`: sandbol -- a string