Hello!
I need your help please. It seems that when a user tries to login to Moodle, Moodle tries to authenticate that user even if the login name does not exist in the mdl_user table. If the authentication method (a custom authentication plugin in our case) returns a positive result, then Moodle creates an entry in mdl_user, and then asks the user to fill in their profile information ("Please tell us more about yourself").
It seems from reading the forums here that this behaviour is normal for Moodle, and not something specific to our authentication plugin. (Please correct me if I am wrong).
However - this behaviour is not what we want. We want to only authenticate existing users, and not allow people to create their own Moodle accounts directly. We have our own process for creating Moodle accounts.
Is there a way to turn off this feature? i.e. to prevent someone from creating a new Moodle account just by authenticating?
Many thanks for your help,
Mike