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

[John Hurst]

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?

cheers,
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On 20111208, at 15:37, Steven W. Orr wrote:

> Every day I get a a few people who create an account and create a spam page. It 
> is getting boring. Only people who are logged in are allowed to create or modify 
> a page.
> 
> 1. Can I block people from creating an account if their address is from the 
> .info TLD?
> 
> 2. Can I send email to the person who tries to create an account that they have 
> to respond to? Failure to respond would block final creation of the account.
> 
> TIA
> 
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