Re: Control account creation

We did not want logged in users to also be able to create accounts,  
so we also added, to LocalSettings.php,

$wgGroupPermissions['user']['createaccount'] = false

After we noticed logged-in users could create accounts.

Frank Fulchiero
Digital Media Specialist
Connecticut College

> From: "Mark (Markie)" <newsmarkie@...>
> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l]
>
> see
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ 
> Manual:Preventing_access#Restrict_account_creation
> for 1.5 upwards use:
> $wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;
> more details on the above page
>
> On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Helmut Schneider <jumper99@...>  
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> what ways to control account creation does Mediawiki 1.12 provide?  
>> I would
>> like to have some kind of restriction mechanism, e.g. that sysop  
>> needs to
>> approve new accounts.
>> I already tried
>> $wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false;
>> $wgGroupPermissions['emailconfirmed']['edit'] = true;
>>
>> without success. I can create an account without providing an  
>> email and
>> then edit any page.