[Mediawiki-l] Disabling account creation

[Carlton B]

Thanks for the guidance.  I'm sorry if I didn't say it clearly enough in the beginning. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Brion Vibber <brion at pobox.com>
Sent: Apr 24, 2005 10:33 PM
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <mediawiki-l at Wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Disabling account creation

Jan Steinman wrote:
> On 24 Apr 2005, at 15:34, Carlton B wrote:
>> I can prevent them from creating MW
>> accounts.  But having done that, I need to add a message somewhere that
>> tells users where to go create an account if they don't have one.
>
> Uhm... that sounds like you want to make a wall, then knock a big hole
> in it!
>
> Either you allow people to create accounts, or you don't.

If you read back, you'll see he wants account creation to be done
through a separate system, which his authentication plugin for MediaWiki
uses as a source.

Carlton, you can change the message at the top of Special:Userlogin by
editing the [[MediaWiki:Loginprompt]] message. Include a link to the
other account system there, and I think it should be pretty straightforward.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)