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@googlemail.com 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@gmx.de wrote:

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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.