Forum OpenACS Q&A: Making user registration require admin approval

1: Making user registration require admin approval

Posted by Henry Minsky on 03/24/02 10:49 PM

I set the optional parameter in OpenACS 4 to require new user
registrations to be approved by the system administrator.
I do get email when a new user registers, however, I cannot find any
web page in the admin tree that lets me as administrator get
a list of pending user registrations and approve or deny them. Does
anyone know if
this page exists in OpenACS4, and if so, why there's no
link to it anywhere?

Thanks,
Henry

2: Response to Making user registration require admin approval (response to 1)

Posted by russ m on 03/25/02 03:14 AM

You can change user state in the individual user admin pages
(http://somesite.com/acs-admin/users/one?user_id=2477)

I haven't seen a "show me the users pending approval" page,
but you can easily do a search in the user admin section for
people who registered within the last couple of days, or who
have never logged in... but yes, a "who needs to be approved"
page would be usefull...

3: Response to Making user registration require admin approval (response to 1)

Posted by Luke Pond on 03/25/02 05:19 PM

I was complaining about this in SDM #1393 and #1412 last week...here's how to fix the bug that's keeping you from seeing the users who need admin approval:

"In acs-admin/users/complex-search.adp, the option to show or hide non-authorized users should always be displayed. Currently the option is hidden if there are fewer than 30 users. This makes no sense and is really confusing when you're trying to figure out how to approve users. "

4: Response to Making user registration require admin approval (response to 1)

Posted by Andrew Piskorski on 03/25/02 09:17 PM

Hm, my old ACS 4.2 site has that. Ah, I added it - it shouldn't be hard. To get a list of all users needing approval on my (non-public) site, I hit this URL:

/acs-admin/users/complex-search?target=one&only_authorized_p=0&only_needs_approval_p=1

I'll go over to SDM ticket 1412 and upload a patch now.