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(a)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(a)gmx.de>
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.