This page last changed on Oct 03, 2006 by david.soul@atlassian.com.

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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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?

Posted by mrjcleaver at Mar 29, 2006 17:26

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.
Posted by mryall at Mar 29, 2006 19:12
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