Question

Is there an easy way to restrict who can register a new account? There are problems w/ spammers creating accounts, then pages that their spam messages link back to. I'd like to be able to prevent just anyone from registering a new account. Say, for someone to register a new account, we would have to give them initial information (a login, etc), so that they could register.

Thanks! Todd

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-- ToddEOlson - 27 Nov 2006

Answer

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An easy way would be to simply add the register script to the {AuthScripts} setting when running the configuration script bin/configure, and define a password for the TWikiGuest account which you pass to users who should be allowed to register. Or you could simply make bin/register inaccessible and do all registration as administrator, using TWiki.BulkRegistration.

-- HaraldJoerg - 27 Nov 2006

I have received an error message "Failed to open file:Invalid at c:/Appserv/apache/cgi-bin/TWiki/lib/UI/Register.pm line 1156"

-- NehaPrasad - 28 Nov 2006