[Planetlab-devel] drupal's user page

[Marc Fiuczynski]

Hello,

The drupal user page accessible on any PLC (e.g. http://PLCURL/? 
q=user) is not explicitly exposed to regular users, but indeed  
knowledgeable users can find this page.  Drupal's default setting is  
to permit visitors to create "drupal" accounts from this page.   
Obviously, this does not make sense for MyPLC and it should be disabled.

It is easy to disable by simply logging in as an admin and going to  
the following URL:

https://PLCURL/?q=admin/settings/user

The resolution is to change the setting at the above page from:

"Visitors can create accounts and no administrator approval is  
required."

to

"Only site administrators can create new user accounts."

and then at the bottom of the page saving the settings.

With this change it wont be possible for anonymous users to create  
drupal accounts.

It would be great if we could figure out how to programmatically  
change the default setting to the "only site administrators can create  
new user accounts" so this manual step via the web interface is not  
required when doing a MyPLC installation.

Marc

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