Close user registration in phpBB2

**hotmale** · June 20th, 2005, 18:46 PM

Disallowing names shouldn't affect existing members:

Please note that you will not be allowed to specify any username that has already been registered. You must first delete that name then disallow it.

It depends how often you'll be adding members. Disallowing names should work fine if you're going to add few users every once in a while.

Or may be you could just password-protect the registration page if it's possible.

I also noticed the "Enable account activation" feature in General Admin > Configuration. Select the value "Admin". That might be an alternative.

**Curio** · June 20th, 2005, 21:39 PM

Woohoo well done Hotmale that was just what I wanted - although it doesn't stop the account being created it can't be used and that is good enough for what I want.

Thank you.

**Reverend** · June 20th, 2005, 21:59 PM

Similar setting in vBulletin.

Moderate New Members: "Allows you to validate new members before they are classified as registered members and are allowed to post."

**hotmale** · June 21st, 2005, 00:36 AM

Originally Posted by Curio

Woohoo well done Hotmale that was just what I wanted - although it doesn't stop the account being created it can't be used and that is good enough for what I want.

Thank you.

You can always count on me, dude

**carloc** · June 21st, 2005, 08:30 AM

Why don't you simply remove the register link in the "index.php" page?

**hotmale** · June 21st, 2005, 17:13 PM

Originally Posted by carloc

Why don't you simply remove the register link in the "index.php" page?

Too easy to bypass.

**Reverend** · June 21st, 2005, 18:10 PM

Originally Posted by hotmale

Too easy to bypass.

Carloc was joking in reference to Curio's first post. "not a theory about removing links to the registration script please"

**carloc** · June 21st, 2005, 21:37 PM

LOL... just joking!

Have you searched here? http://www.phpbbhacks.com/

Anyway... I asked to a friend of mine and he told me it's quite difficult to do without using the mysql db directly.
In the db you should find a table named "phpbb_users" in which each registered user has an own progressive ID. Here you can find the Anonimous user which has ID set to -1. If you delete it, any new user that attempts to register will prompt a message that he/she is already registered. This means that the Administrato can't create new users too!! So you will need to manually edit the db. I'm not sure this procedure can work properly but it could be a tip...