making a user active

Should be a simple one... how do I make a new user active?  Up till now I 
just wrote a custom query to do it but that's not very satisfactory.

Also is there a simple way to create and login a new user at the same time, 
other than just calling init after creating them?


thanks and happy new year to everyone



jon



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