I have migrated from my old forum engine to Discourse. I wanted to prohibit registrations, as the user creation is handled from my main website (via API request), so the forum account created together with user account on the main website. However when I was enabling “disable registration”, it didn’t allow me to create users even from API. So I switched to “INvite only”, this seems to work, however I got the problem - all existing (who were migrated from old forum) users now need approval before their first login. For new users it seems fine. How can I “bulk approve” all thousands of existing users and why do I get this message at all?

When you enable must approve users, all existing users are approved automatically. config/initializers/014-track-setting-changes.rb a564274ba # Enabling `must_approve_users` on an existing site is odd, so we assume that the # existing users are approved. if name == :must_approve_users && new_value == true User .where(approved: false) .joins("LEFT JOIN reviewables r ON r.target_id = users.id") .where(r: { id: nil }) .update_all(approved: true) end Maybe it works to temporarily enable that to use the automation to approve your users.

I think you want to disable enable local logins if you’d like your SSO to handle it, rather than disabling registrations entirely.

[image] JammyDodger: I think you want to disable enable local logins if you’d like your SSO to handle it, rather than disabling registrations entirely. Maybe i wrote it somehow unclear [image] lega4: I wanted to prohibit registrations, as the user creation is handled from my main website (via API request), so the forum account created together with user account on the main website. This means I create a user in Discourse via API at the time of them creating an account on the website. I don’t have any kind of “SSO”. It’s pure one single API request. And I do want to actually prohibit non-API registrations. “local logins” is the only way users can log in, as I don’t have any SSO-stuff.

[image] Moin: Is the approve suspect users setting enabled? Wow, that was indeed enabled! Disabled it now, let’s see whether it helps, thanks!

[image] Moin: Maybe that is why you need to approve them :thinking: Unfortunately not, existing users still pop up as requiring approval even though this setting is disabled now…

[image] Moin: Maybe it works to temporarily enable that to use the automation to approve your users. Did it yesterday and haven’t seen a single approve request so far! So it seems this was exactly the trick, thanks!

Invite-registrations for existing users?

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Moin July 15, 2024, 10:13am 4

Is the approve suspect users setting enabled?

Add suspicious users to the review queue. Suspicious users have entered a bio/website but have no reading activity.

Maybe that is why you need to approve them

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Invite-registrations for existing users?

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