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Enabling or Disabling Public Signup

Added by Vidya Madabushi, last edited by Sarah Maddox on Jun 24, 2007
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Enabling 'Public Signup' allows users to sign themselves up to the site.

If you want to restrict your site to a particular set of users, you may want to disable 'Public Signup'. In this instance, site administrators can add new users from the Administration Console.

To enable or disable 'Public Signup',

  1. From the 'Administration Console' click on 'General Configuration' in the left panel.

  2. This will display the 'Options and Settings' screen. Click 'Edit'.

  3. Beside 'Public Signup', select 'On' to enable Public Signup. Select 'Off' to disable it.

  4. Click 'Save'.
RELATED TOPICS
Adding a Group
Adding a New User
Adding or Removing a User from a Group
Adding SSL for Secure Logins and Page Security
Anonymous Access to Remote API
Changing Usernames
Editing User Details
Enabling or Disabling Public Signup
Excluding external referrers
Global Groups Overview
Global Permissions Overview
Hiding External Links From Search Engines
Hiding external referrers
Managing External Referrers
Removing a Group
Removing a User
Security Overview
Setting up Anonymous Access
Spam Prevention (Captcha)
User Email Visibility
Viewing members of a group

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