# A way to Lock new users to Level 0?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-way-to-lock-new-users-to-level-0/34471>\
**Category:** SSO\
**Tags:** trust-levels, discourseconnect\
**Created:** [Outubro 14, 2015, 12:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-way-to-lock-new-users-to-level-0/34471 "2015-10-14T00:29:46Z")\
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**Post date:** [Outubro 14, 2015, 12:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-way-to-lock-new-users-to-level-0/34471/1 "2015-10-14T00:29:46Z")

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Is there a setting or programmatic way lock all new users to trust level 0?

Why? We want to manually promote accounts from level 0 to 1.

All new accounts will be created via SSO. This means every user on our platform could make an account, in theory. Our mostly-private forum will be structured like an iceberg… one public announcement category everyone can see, and then all other categories will be visible only to trust levels 1+, a small subset of the platform users.

If we can’t do it programmatically, what settings can I use to keep new level 0’s from progressing to 1? _(make them read 65535 minutes of posts?)_

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