Cannot disable signup

[somoit-JSP]

Hi!
Im selfhosting Padloc v4.2.0. Maybe i doing something wrong, but im trying to disable signup by setting environment variable...

PL_SERVER_DISABLE_SIGNUP=true

... but it seems to have no effect. I have seen it in the example env file. Is it implemented? Is there any way to disable signup?
Thanks!

[BrunoBernardino]

@somoit-JSP thanks for reporting this, we'd need a bit more information. That env var should work, but it needs to be passed on to the server properly. Are you running it via docker-compose up, or some other way? If so, can you share your docker-compose.yml file or whatever docker configuration you've got?

[somoit-JSP]

Hi @BrunoBernardino.
Correct, im using docker-compose and env file contains more variables that are succesfully parsed and used.
These are the vars contained in my env file
Thanks!

PL_EMAIL_BACKEND=console
PL_EMAIL_BACKEND=smtp
PL_EMAIL_SMTP_HOST=smtp.mydomain.com
PL_EMAIL_SMTP_PORT=25
PL_EMAIL_SMTP_FROM="padloc@mydomain.com"
PL_DATA_BACKEND=leveldb
PL_DATA_LEVELDB_DIR=/data
PL_ATTACHMENTS_BACKEND=fs
PL_ATTACHMENTS_FS_DIR=/attachments
PL_SERVER_CLIENT_URL=https://padloc.mydomain.com
PL_SERVER_REPORT_ERRORS=email@mydomain.com
PL_SERVER_VERIFY_EMAIL_ON_SIGNUP=false
PL_SERVER_DISABLE_SIGNUP=true
PL_SERVER_ADMINS=email@mydomain.com
PL_SERVER_URL=https://padloc.mydomain.com
PL_PWA_URL=https://padloc.mydomain.com

[BrunoBernardino]

Thanks @somoit-JSP and what does your docker-compose.yml look like?

[somoit-JSP]

Sorry, i forgot. Here you have:

version: "3.7"
services:
    server:
        image: padloc/server
        env_file: ./env
        ports:
            - 127.0.0.1:3000:3000
        volumes:
            - ./attachments:/attachments
            - ./data:/data
        restart: unless-stopped
    pwa_custom:
        image: padloc/pwa
        env_file: ./env
        ports:
            - 127.0.0.1:8080:8080
        restart: on-failure
volumes:
    data:
    attachments:

[BrunoBernardino]

@somoit-JSP All looks good and you sent me down a rabbit whole, from which I'll need @MaKleSoft to help me get out of.

This commit enabled this feature. And it was merged as part of this PR.

However, by the time v4.1.0 is released, that commit/code is no longer there.

You can also see in the history from the current main branch that the commit with this feature isn't there, so I'm guessing this got lost somewhere with a force push before releasing v4? Or was it something else I'm missing?

[MaKleSoft]

Sorry for the late response! I think I started writing a response two weeks ago but forgot to send it 😅

The PL_SERVER_DISABLE_SIGNUP is no longer available and was basically superseded by the whole provisioning mechanism. Basically, you can now achieve the same thing by configuring the provisioning layer like so:

PL_PROVISIONING_BACKEND=basic
PL_PROVISIONING_BASIC_DEFAULT_STATUS=unprovisioned

This has the downside that in order to whitelist new users you basically have to edit their provisioning status to active manually. Let me know if you need help with that!

[BrunoBernardino]

I guess then we need to remove PL_SERVER_DISABLE_SIGNUP from the example env

[hampoelz]

Is it by design that PL_PROVISIONING_BASIC_DEFAULT_STATUS=unprovisioned continues to ask non-existing accounts to verify their email as if a new account were being created? (even if PL_SERVER_VERIFY_EMAIL_ON_SIGNUP=false is set)

[magiceupho]

Hi,

@MaKleSoft I've tested this two variables but the signup is not disabled.
Here is my compose.yaml:

services:
  server:
    image: padloc/server
    container_name: padloc-server
    build:
      context: github.com/padloc/padloc.git#main
      dockerfile: Dockerfile-server
    env_file: ./.env
    ports:
      - 3000:3000
    volumes:
      - ./attachments:/attachments
      - ./data:/data
    restart: unless-stopped
    networks:
      - utils-network

  pwa:
    image: padloc/pwa
    container_name: padloc-pwa
    build:
      context: github.com/padloc/padloc.git#main
      dockerfile: Dockerfile-pwa
    env_file: ./.env
    ports:
      - 8080:8080
    restart: on-failure
    networks:
      - utils-network

networks:
  utils-network:
    external: true

Can you help me please ?

Regards

[MaKleSoft]

@magiceupho What does your .env file look like?

[magiceupho]

Hi,

@MaKleSoft here is my .env:

PL_HOSTNAME=padloc.***.fr
PL_ADMIN_EMAIL=***@***.fr
PL_EMAIL_BACKEND=smtp
PL_EMAIL_SMTP_HOST=mail.***.com
PL_EMAIL_SMTP_PORT=587
PL_EMAIL_SMTP_USER=***@***.fr
PL_EMAIL_SMTP_PASSWORD="***"
PL_EMAIL_SMTP_FROM=$PL_ADMIN_EMAIL
PL_DATA_BACKEND=leveldb
PL_DATA_LEVELDB_DIR=/data
PL_ATTACHMENTS_BACKEND=fs
PL_ATTACHMENTS_FS_DIR=/attachments
PL_PROVISIONING_BACKEND=basic
PL_PROVISIONING_BASIC_DEFAULT_STATUS=unprovisioned
PL_SERVER_CLIENT_URL=https://$PL_HOSTNAME
PL_SERVER_REPORT_ERRORS=$PL_ADMIN_EMAIL
PL_SERVER_ADMINS=$PL_ADMIN_EMAIL
PL_SERVER_URL=https://$PL_HOSTNAME/server
PL_PWA_URL=https://$PL_HOSTNAME

I use Traefik as proxy and loadbalancer.

Thank you