[ckan-dev] disable user registration

Thu Aug 15 03:44:28 UTC 2013

This worked. Thanks!

On Aug 14, 2013, at 5:42 PM, Joshua Tauberer <tauberer+consulting at govtrack.us> wrote:

> For hub.HealthData.gov, we created this patch
> 
> https://github.com/HHS/ckan/commit/0102d4d7cee9151fc5fcfe31c56c485436eddda4
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> which makes a new config option ckan.auth. create_user which we set to false.
> 
> It has been in pull request purgatory since then:
> 
> https://github.com/okfn/ckan/pull/399
> 
> Josh
> 
> On 08/14/2013 06:10 PM, Stefan Oderbolz wrote:
>> There is currently similar question on StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18171937/ckan-prevent-user-from-auto-registering
>> The provided answer describes how you can disable the registration with a custom extension.
>> 
>> Of course this is not a nice as a configuration option, but still a relatively low effort solution.
>> 
>> Hope it helps.
>> 
>> - Stefan
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 11:45 PM, Patrick West <westp at rpi.edu> wrote:
>> It is not obvious from any of the documentation how one would disable user registration. Anyone can register at this point. We can't allow that. I don't see anything in the production.ini file, the who.ini file. The only way I can figure to do this at this point is to do a rewrite rule in the apache config file to block that URL.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Patrick
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