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Disable account creation (not just via access question) #532

Open jbattat opened 8 years ago

jbattat commented 8 years ago

I'd like to disable account creation via the web interface. I know about the access question, and I currently use it, but I'd prefer to fully disable account creation, rather than just making it probable that a random user can't create an account.

As far as I know, it's not possible to disable account creation (according to mailing list discussions from ~2010). If this is still the case, I'd like to request that this feature be added.

Many thanks for a great tool!

jgm commented 8 years ago

You can always put the account creation page under HTTP authentication.

+++ jbattat [Jan 06 16 06:59 ]:

I'd like to disable account creation via the web interface I know about the access question, and I currently use it, but I'd prefer to fully disable account creation, rather than just making it probable that a random user can't create an account

As far as I know, it's not possible to disable account creation (according to mailing list discussions from ~2010) If this is still the case, I'd like to request that this feature be added

Many thanks for a great tool!

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  1. https://github.com/jgm/gitit/issues/532
jbattat commented 8 years ago

True, and I had seen that suggestion in the mailing lists. It just seems cleaner to avoid the issue entirely by disabling the "Account Creation" option. But if this is a change that seems simple, but is in fact rather involved to implement, then I will go one of the other two routes (access question and http authentication). -- Thanks again