# 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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**Author:** ![itsbhanusharma](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/itsbhanusharma/32/180717_2.png) [@itsbhanusharma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/itsbhanusharma)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2019, 6:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pre-approving-new-users-when-local-login-is-disabled/126234/2 "2019-08-20T06:19:41Z")

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I’m afraid this isn’t going to work at all!  
Primarily because invites don’t work without local logins enabled. So, You’re probably looking at a very custom plugin that will handle all of this or an external authentication system to suffice your requirements.

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