Place in galaxy home directory and run to create users.

create_galaxy_users.py

from scripts.db_shell import *
from galaxy.util.bunch import Bunch
from galaxy.security import GalaxyRBACAgent
bunch = Bunch( **globals() )
bunch.engine = engine
# model.flush() has been removed.
bunch.session = db_session
# For backward compatibility with "model.context.current"
bunch.context = db_session
security_agent = GalaxyRBACAgent( bunch )
security_agent.sa_session = sa_session

def add_user(email, password, key=None):
    query = sa_session.query( User ).filter_by( email=email )
    if query.count() > 0:
        return query.first()
    else:
        user = User(email)
        user.set_password_cleartext(password)
        sa_session.add(user)
        sa_session.flush()

        security_agent.create_private_user_role( user )
        if not user.default_permissions:
            security_agent.user_set_default_permissions( user,
history=True, dataset=True )

        if key is not None:
            api_key = APIKeys()
            api_key.user_id = user.id
            api_key.key = key
            sa_session.add(api_key)
            sa_session.flush()
        return user

add_user("user1", "pass1")
add_user("user2", "pass2")