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, administrators can add new users from the Administration Console. |
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The information on this page To enable or disable public signup:
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Go to the Confluence 'Administration Console':
- Choose Browse > Confluence Admin. The 'Administrator Access' login screen will be displayed.
- Enter your password and click Confirm. You will be temporarily logged into a secure session to access the 'Administration Console'.
- Select Security Configuration in the left-hand panel. This will display the 'Security Configuration' screen.
- Click Edit.
- Check Public Signup. Clear the checkbox to disable it.
- Click Save.
Related Topics
Disabling the Built-In User Management
User Management
Configuring Confluence Security
4 Comments
Hide/Show CommentsMay 02, 2010
Udo M.
I have public sign-up disabled, however anonymous users still get the link for sign-up when they add a comment to a page.
How can I prevent this link from being displayed?
Thanks
May 11, 2010
Sashidaran Jayaraman [Atlassian]
Hi Udo,
I believe the issue you are describing has been raised previously as an improvement request. Please add yourself as a watcher, vote for this improvement and add your own comments to this request. For further details on how we include new features and improvements, you might want to read this page.
However, as a workaround, you can edit the <confluence-install>/confluence/includes/alert-anonymous.vm and comment out the following line:
which would hide the link. Hope this helps.
Cheers
JSashi
Feb 10, 2011
PMI
Is there any way to add custom fields to the sign up page, such as "Which area are you interested in? [List]?
Nov 30, 2011
Eliane Pohl
Is there any way to receive an email notification whenever someone signs-up through public sign up?
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