Indeed "Only an admin can send invitations to join this wiki" is quite misleading. This option is only about main wiki users in a farm use case. It's not related to how new users are created.
On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 2:01 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Stefan, > >> On 18 Aug 2016, at 13:53, Stefan Taferner <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> The day after upgrading http://selfbus.myxwiki.org to 8.2.1, I found a >> handful of spammer accounts that were created as local users in the wiki. >> >> The wiki was configured to >> >> * Only an admin can send invitations to join this wiki >> * Both global and local users are available in the wiki >> >> Interestingly this still allows new users to be registered. >> Also strange is that the registration captcha does not show as it should >> also. >> >> The wiki is now set to allow only global users, so there is no immediate >> problem. >> I only wanted to report my observations, as it looks like a bug in xwiki to >> me. > > Whether someone can create an account depends on the “register” permission > for guest. This is what you need to configure for your wiki. > > Global/Local user simply defines where the user accounts can be created (on > the main wiki - ie global -, or on the local wiki - ie local). > > On the main wiki we allow everyone to register accounts :) > > Thanks > -Vincent > >> Kind regards, >> Stefan > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
