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[Steve Shipway <address@concealed>]

> I recently installed Sympa 6.1.24. Since the mailing list must only be used 
> by a
> closed group of people, I searched for a way to disable the public
> registration option: First Login ?
>
> Is there a way to disable public registration ?

Several ways (I'm going by 6.1.23 here but they're pretty much identical).

Firstly, if you set the option in the auth.conf for authentication_info_url 
then this will be shown instead of the 'First Login' and 'Lost Password' 
links.  If you use an external authentication method, such as SSO or LDAP, 
then this is probably what you want.  You can also remove the 'user_table' 
stanza in the auth.conf to disable any local user definitions.

Secondly, you can edit the web_tt2/loginbanner.tt2 file so that it never 
shows 
these links at all, regardless of the other settings.

This does not exactly disable the option; however it removes the link to it 
so 
that nobody can find it.  Removing the user_table option will mean that - 
even 
if people go to the signup link - the internal user table is never tested 
anyway.

Steve

Steve Shipway
address@concealed

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