I picked to wrong setting to set up. I want people to be able to create an account - subject to verification, but, my current login in page does not have a link. I tried some man pages and looked at LocalSettings.xml and nothing jumped out at me. Please throw me a bread crumb.
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You probably have
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;
in your LocalSettings.php. See Restrict account creation.