OK but notice, anybody, not even logged in, can already register using somebody else's email address and that person would receive an unwanted email with a link to verify their email. Unless registration_requires_approval is set False.
So perhaps the condition should only kick in if registration_requires_approval is False. On Sunday, 28 June 2015 09:57:17 UTC-5, Anthony wrote: > > I don't think this should be exposed by default for all users -- it should > be disabled by default and only enabled when done so explicitly by the > developer. I would think you would only want to expose this kind of > functionality to admin/trusted users -- otherwise, you are providing a way > for users to spam people and load your db.auth_user table with an unlimited > number of phantom registrations. A few other suggestions: > > - Provide an easy API for specifying a required Auth role or set of > roles that are allowed access to this functionality (as I think in most > cases you would want to restrict its usage) -- something like > auth.settings.bulk_register_roles. > - Add an option to specify a limit on the number of users that can be > registered at a time (with some reasonable default, such as 100). > - Maybe provide a script or a function in admin/appadmin that can > clean up db.auth_user by expunging bulk registrations that were not > completed within some (configurable) time frame. > - Apply auth.settings.formstyle to the form. > > Anthony > > On Sunday, June 28, 2015 at 10:19:46 AM UTC-4, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: >> >> Hello web2py users, >> >> a new feature is in trunk, please help us test it. >> Originally developed here https://github.com/web2py/web2py/pull/985 as >> "invite" has been renamed as "bulk_register". It is available to all web2py >> applications at this user: >> >> http://127.0.0.1:8000/welcome/default/user/bulk_register >> >> It allows you to specify a list of emails and an email messages. Those >> people will be registered and will receive the email with a link to >> complete registration. >> >> Please send comments, suggestions for improvements, bug reports. >> >> Massimo >> > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
