By Drupppal on

How do I temporary put a complete stop to anyone registering, for now?

I'm getting far too many spam bots registering, want to shut down registering for a few days until I work something out to combat this nuisance.

I just want to put a stop to registration temporarily, how do I do this in admin?

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WorldFallz’s picture

WorldFallz commented

Goto admin/user/settings and select "only site administrators can create accounts".

manogolf’s picture

manogolf commented

The mollom http://drupal.org/project/mollom module is very effective for squashing those spammers. For over a year I used the direct login link and only allowed registration by admisistrative approval. Since installing mollom I've yet to see unwanted registrations succeed.

petersim’s picture

petersim commented

Before you try Mollom, which is fairly complex and resource intensive, you may want to try the plain CAPTCHA module.

Drupppal’s picture

Drupppal commented

Thanks for the replies. I'm going to choose a module in the few days.

In the meantime, can they not be stopped using the core profile module? By making some fields required upon registration so the bots can't register.

Anybody had success with this? I've read that it can be done, but don't know which field to choose that would make it difficult for bots.

I've made a post here with more details
http://drupal.org/node/426526

vseanclark’s picture

vseanclark commented

What you are trying to do can be done with CAPTCHA riddler, I think.

http://drupal.org/project/riddler

Looks kind of behind the times, but if you were looking to code your own, you should just pick up the work where they left it off.

I'm trying the the base CAPTCHA module today for a customer. http://drupal.org/project/captcha

Cheers!