[Moin-user] Can I block people from creating accounts if they don't verify their address?

[Steven W. Orr]

On 12/8/2011 12:31 AM, John Hurst wrote:
> I had this problem.  I explored the web page below, but couldn't get it to work.
>
>    http://moinmo.in/FeatureRequests/DisableUserCreation
>
> Aftyer much trial and error, I eventually nurgled the _create_user routine in<your directory for python packages>/MoinMoin/action/newaccount.py to add a couple of lines
>
> def _create_user(request):
>      _ = request.getText
>      form = request.form
>
>      if not request.user.isSuperUser():
>          return _('You are not allowed to use this action.')
>
>      ...
>
> which does the trick by allowing only superusers to create new accounts.  However, it doesn't actually print the error message, but internal errors, for reasons I don't understand.  Oh well, it was a simple fix.  Perhaps someone else might explain what I'm doing wrong?

This is not really what I want. I don't want other people to not be allowed to 
create accounts. What I want is to prevent people from creating accounts whose 
email address matches a pattern. In my case (today) the interlopers are all on 
the .info TLD

Another thing that would be wonderful would be if the account creation could 
be completed only by responding to a confirmation email, the same as if you 
were signing up for a mailing list.

But, I don't want to disallow everyone from signing up as a default.

BTW, I should mention that all of the spam that I'm getting is not only coming 
from the .info TLD, it's also coming in despite TextCha being enabled. That 
never used to be the case.

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