Plone: Control User registration
How to ... disable arbitrary new user registration in Plone.
- login as a manager
- go to the zope management interface (ZMI) at the root of your site (i.e.
http://www.my.portal/manage
) - look at the security tab
- against the
Add portal member
role ... uncheck theAcquire?
check box .. so that permissions aren't inherited from Zope - make sure only the
Manager
checkbox is checked - save the form
Disabling new user registration from unauthenticated users this way will also automatically remove the "New user?" and "join" links from the portal interface.