By zblace on

Hi All! I was wondering if it is possible to avoid creation of new user (assigning ID) in Drupal before email of given "applicant" is authenticated?

So process would be:
#0 apply for account with email
#1 email sent by Drupal
#2 user gets a link
#3 when link is requested Drupal forwards request to a full user registration form with assigned User ID

Thanks for any guidance!

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x, Drupal 7.x

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alan d. commented

See the admin > users > user settings page:

[]Require e-mail verification when a visitor creates an account
If this box is checked, new users will be required to validate their e-mail address prior to logging into the site, and will be assigned a system-generated password. With it unchecked, users will be logged in immediately upon registering, and may select their own passwords during registration.

Otherwise it is a custom programming task...

Alan Davison
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zblace commented

tnx - well aware of that setting...
...but somehow I thought there would be a module that would handle registration process in more controlled way, to avoid assigning UID before email account is confirmed.

alan d.’s picture

alan d. commented

If unverified users are an issue, a simple cron process could be set up to delete users that haven't verified their accounts after a week or two, and I think that there are modules out there that could do this 1 linear function, although I can't remember their names off hand.

eg delete from users where uid > 1 and access = 0 and login = 0 and created < (now() - 2 weeks)

Alan Davison
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michaels-musings.com commented

+1 for moving this to core.

It is an annoyance as it currently works.

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zblace commented

Is there a page describing such procedure? I would not mind pushing it if someone informs me of the way to do it :-)