This is exactly what we do as well. It's a little dirty when you plug the user table, but it's quick and efficient. Saves you a load of problems when it comes to deleting users!

Jan Steinman wrote:

Here's what I did.

1. Disallow account creation.
2. Supply a form for people to request account creation.
3. Create the account for them, either as sysop, or by plugging the

user table. 4) In either case, the user then has to request a password.

Example at: http://www.EcoReality.org/wiki/Join

I realize this creates a bit more administrative work, but assuming legit requests are low occurrence, it's less trouble than dealing with TONS of illegitimate accounts, which the gurus here have repeatedly warned us we should not delete!

In wikis I've been creating, I see about an 80% illegitimate account creation rate.

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