Thread:Project:Support desk/Combatting Spam OpenID Fbconnect create account (2)

The information on this page may be incorrect https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam#Restrict_editing Even when editing is restricted to account holders, spammers can automatically create accounts and flood a wiki with new account spam. This can largely be avoided by disabling account creation and transferring authentication to a service such as Extension:OpenID. New account creation is disabled with this line in LocalSettings.php: $wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false; The MediaWiki:Loginprompt can be updated from the default to suggest that new users create accounts with an OpenID. Current accounts are unaffected, and new users often already have an account with one of the OpenID providers.

it would be nice to achieve the above effect but Visitors cannot create new accounts since openid has been patched to respect $wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;  https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27419

Visitors cannot create new accounts using extension:Facebook either when $wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false; is set, an internal error occurs.

also if the $wgFbDisableLogin = true; is set in extension:Facebook visitors can sign up with facebook but not openid and current users cant login either with the regular login either.

is there a way to allow signups through openid and/or facebook(hotmail etc visitors) and disable regular signups ?