We all face the issue of spam registrations on
our websites. Many of the times, we want to disable user registrations on the
website. This post details how the same can be done in Drupal. Drupal allows the
following different settings for user registrations -
- Only site administrators can create new
user accounts.
- Visitors can create accounts and no
administrator approval is required.
- Visitors can create accounts but
administrator approval is required.
By default, Drupal comes with the setting
“Visitors can create accounts and no administrator approval is required.” so
that users can register and are auto approved. To disable user registrations, we
need to perform the following steps (I take the site example as http://www.yoursite.com)
In case, you are more interested to make this
change from Database level, you can use the following query on your database:
UPDATE
variable SET 'value' =
‘s:1:”0?;'
WHERE 'name' =
‘user_register';