# 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:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2019, 6:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/pre-approving-new-users-when-local-login-is-disabled/126234/7 "2019-08-21T06:03:31Z")

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You’re mixing up a few different things here.

- social logins skip password since auth is handled by facebook, twitter, google, etc

- invites make password _temporarily_ optional but you have to follow the invite link again to “log in” which I think we locked down so much that effectively doesn’t work any more. You’d need to submit a password reset via email to get in after that, which requires setting a password.

It’s a long story but invites are designed to get people in and replying ASAP with a minimum of fuss, but they are NOT intended to let people skip setting a password forever.

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