# Pre-approving new users when local login is disabled

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/pre-approving-new-users-when-local-login-is-disabled/126234>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [August 19, 2019, 11:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pre-approving-new-users-when-local-login-is-disabled/126234 "2019-08-19T23:33:08Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 19, 2019, 11:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pre-approving-new-users-when-local-login-is-disabled/126234/1 "2019-08-19T23:33:08Z")

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We have a private site where:

- Local logins are disabled (Facebook and Google logins are configured)
- Staff must approve all new user accounts

We have a large email mailing list and would like to “pre-approve” all the email addresses in this list. If a person comes to the site and tries to sign-up or login with a Facebook or Google account associated with an email in our pre-approval list, they don’t have to wait for a staff member to approve them and they can immediately start using the site.

Ideally we would also be able to pre-configure group membership per email.

Is this possible? Solutions that require using the Discourse API are welcome.

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