[Mediawiki-l] Restricintg registration for users

[zehetner at molgen.mpg.de]

E.g.
# disable user registration
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;

See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Preventing_access
    http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgGroupPermissions

Gu

Quoting Waleed Pervaiz <wpervaiz at hotmail.com>:

> 
> Gey guys,
> 
> I'm relatively new to mediawiki, but learning fast. I want to be able to give
> access to only users whom I approve.
> 
> I used these lines to disable view access for anonymous users:
> 
> $wgGroupPermissions['*']['read'] = false;
> $wgWhitelistRead =  array ( "Main Page", "Special:Userlogin",
> "Help:Contents");
> 
> 
> But a user can always login and start viewing. Is there any way that I could
> restrict registration? Either I approve of the user before his login starts
> working, or only I have access to "add" new users.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Waleed
> 
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