Registration approval and new user moderation

[joho1968]

Description:

It'd be nice if there was a setting that allowed for moderation/approval of registration. Simply having either a "no registrations" or "open registrations" policy seems a bit binary. If enabled, a queue of users that have registered, and verified their e-mail, could be placed in some sort of holding queue until approved/denied by an administrator.

(And I'm assuming users that have not verified their e-mail address within nn time are already being automatically purged, otherwise, that'd be nice too.)

[richvdh]

this starts to be the sort of thing that might be better implemented by a separate authentication module. Indeed if you ask around in #synapse:matrix.org you might find it's a problem that people have already solved.

[joho1968]

True story. And I was given a recommendation there. But perhaps there could be an official separate authentication module :-)

I'm all for layered and/or blackbox design, but I also think there's something to be said for trust in this day and age. But it was just my two cents, I'm sure yours is the correct answer.

[Graphicscore]

@joho1968 Why not share your findings here ? I need this feature too , would be awesome if you could describe what you did here ...

[joho1968]

@Graphicscore So far, my findings have been null and void, unfortunately. I'd be happy to share anything I find.