diff --git a/Gemfile.d/utilities.rb b/Gemfile.d/utilities.rb
index 83a3020d..517f431f 100644
--- a/Gemfile.d/utilities.rb
+++ b/Gemfile.d/utilities.rb
@@ -17,3 +17,4 @@
 gem 'user-agent'
 
 gem 'safe_yaml'
+gem 'highline', :require => false
diff --git a/Gemfile.lock b/Gemfile.lock
index 1422ad47..a512508b 100644
--- a/Gemfile.lock
+++ b/Gemfile.lock
@@ -96,6 +96,7 @@ GEM
       activerecord (>= 3.1)
     font-awesome-rails (3.2.1.3)
       railties (>= 3.2, < 5.0)
+    highline (1.6.20)
     hike (1.2.3)
     httpi (2.1.0)
       rack
@@ -255,6 +256,7 @@ DEPENDENCIES
   font-awesome-rails (< 4.0)
   git!
   has_metadata_column!
+  highline
   jquery-rails
   json
   json-schema (< 2.0.0)
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4fb8049f..4a679238 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -261,6 +261,9 @@ members to administrator status, and modify/delete others' Comments.
 **Owners** (each Project has only one) can do everything administrators can do,
 and can also delete the Project and reassign ownership.
 
+If you disable user registration on ```authentication.yml```, you can add new users
+using the ```rake users:create``` task. It will prompt for user data and perform validations.
+
 Recording and Categorizing Occurrences
 --------------------------------------
 
diff --git a/lib/tasks/users.rb b/lib/tasks/users.rb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7e61fd6d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/tasks/users.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+# Copyright 2014 Square Inc.
+#
+#    Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+#    you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+#    You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#        http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+#    WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+#    See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+#    limitations under the License.
+
+require 'highline/import'
+
+namespace :users do
+
+	task create: :environment do  |t, args|
+
+	 	user = get_user_data
+
+		until user.valid?
+			say("Unable to create user:")
+			user.errors.full_messages.each do |err|
+				say("<%= color('#{err}', :red) %>")
+				user = get_user_data(user)
+			end
+		end
+
+		user.create
+	end
+
+	def get_user_data(user_data = User.new)
+		User.new do |user|
+			user.username 	= ask("username: ")  	{ |q| q.default = user_data.username } 
+			user.email_address = ask("email: ")  	{ |q| q.default = user_data.email_address }
+			user.first_name = ask("first name: ") { |q| q.default = user_data.first_name }
+			user.last_name 	= ask("last name: ")  { |q| q.default = user_data.last_name }
+
+			until user.password == user.password_confirmation && user.password.present?
+				say("<%= color(\"Passwords don't match. Try Again\", :red) %>")  if user.password.present?
+				user.password = ask("password: ") { |q| q.echo = false }
+				user.password_confirmation = ask("password confirmation: ") { |q| q.echo = false }
+			end
+
+		end
+	end
+
+end