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Disable public account signups

Added by Vidya Madabushi, last edited by Sarah Maddox on Jun 24, 2007  (view change)
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How do I prevent just anyone from being able to sign up for new accounts?

Confluence gives you the option to enable or diable "public signup". If you want to restrict your site to a particular set of users, you can easily disable public signup from the 'General Configuration' section of the Administration Console.

See Enabling or Disabling Public Signup.

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  1. Mar 29, 2006

    Martin Cleaver says:

    What needs to be done to approve people, so they can sign up but then their sign...

    What needs to be done to approve people, so they can sign up but then their sign-up details are workflowed to an administrator who can approve them?

    1. Mar 29, 2006

      Matt Ryall says:

      There's no way to do this currently through the UI. We have an outstanding featu...

      There's no way to do this currently through the UI. We have an outstanding feature request you can vote for:

      http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-663

      For the time being, I can suggest a few options:

      1. Ask new users to use the 'Contact Administrators' link at the bottom of the page to send you an email requesting an account.
      2. Edit login.vm to add a link to email you. Very easy; it is just HTML.
      3. Create a page that is accessible anonymously and put a form there that emails you.
      4. Edit signup.vm to email you the form results and redirect to a page letting the user know it is pending approval.

      1. Mar 18, 2008

        Anonymous says:

        Hi Matt, Regarding 4, I attempted to redirect to a page after submit button&nbs...

        Hi Matt,

        Regarding 4, I attempted to redirect to a page after submit button is hit by revising to "common-signup.vm" as follows. Is there anything worng with the code?

        Or could you show me how to "redirect a page" specifically? The confluence site I am working on doesn't allow anonymous access.

        <script language="javascript">
        ...

        function redirectAckPage()
        {
            document.location.replace("http://confluence.xxx.com/display/PublicSignUp/SignUpAck");
            return true;
        {color:#990000}}

        </script>

        <form method="POST" action="mailto:support@xxx.com?subject=Online Customer Sign Up" name="signupform" onSubmit="return redirectAckPage(        )">

        ....

        thanks a lot,

        shelley:>

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