[FR] Limit signups

[CedericN]

1~3 main use cases of the proposed feature
It would be useful to add a setting (in docker or with an admin account) to not allow sighnups (so only possible when getting an invite)

what types of users can benefit from using your proposed feature
This can be usefull for people who host this on small home servers/vps that does not have a lot of disk space/processing power.

Additional context
For now I don't think it will be an issue that random people will start to sign up at random self hosed sited. But when this gets bigger (Which I think will probably happen) this can be a bigger issue

[speed2exe]

@CedericN
You can disable all signups after setting up all your accounts.

To disable signups:

1. Open docker-compose.yml and add the following in services.gotrue.environment:
   GOTRUE_DISABLE_SIGNUP=false
2. Apply the settings by running docker compose up -d

[CedericN]

Ooh I must have mist that setting.

But will this also disable signups by invite Link or will those still be possible?

[speed2exe]

@CedericN It will not be possible. but you still can log in with admin account, then create user from there.

[CedericN]

Ooh okay, it would be nice/helpful to have this in the future but for now this is already really useful

[henri9813]

Hello,

Where GOTRUE_DISABLE_SIGNUP is documented ?

Best regards

[henri9813]

Hello,

Setting the variable to false does nothing, it must be set to true to have the following result

However, setting this to true make appflowy Crash because it can create the admin account ( which already exist ... )

appflowy_cloud-1    | AppFlowy Cloud with RUST_LOG=info
appflowy_cloud-1    | {"timestamp":"2024-05-09T11:37:53.208614Z","level":"INFO","fields":{"message":"Preparing to run database migrations..."},"target":"appflowy_cloud::application"}
appflowy_cloud-1    | {"timestamp":"2024-05-09T11:37:53.208629Z","level":"INFO","fields":{"message":"Connecting to postgres database with setting: DatabaseSetting { pg_conn_opts: PgConnectOptions { host: \"postgres\", port: 5432, socket: None, username: \"postgres\", password: Some(\"password\"), database: Some(\"postgres\"), ssl_mode: Prefer, ssl_root_cert: None, ssl_client_cert: None, ssl_client_key: None, statement_cache_capacity: 100, application_name: None, log_settings: LogSettings { statements_level: Debug, slow_statements_level: Warn, slow_statements_duration: 1s }, extra_float_digits: Some(\"2\"), options: None }, require_ssl: false, max_connections: 40, database_name: postgres }"},"target":"appflowy_cloud::application"}
appflowy_cloud-1    | {"timestamp":"2024-05-09T11:37:53.212418Z","level":"INFO","fields":{"message":"Setting up S3 bucket..."},"target":"appflowy_cloud::application"}
appflowy_cloud-1    | {"timestamp":"2024-05-09T11:37:53.212424Z","level":"INFO","fields":{"message":"Connecting to S3 bucket with setting: S3Setting { use_minio: true, minio_url: \"http://minio:9000\", access_key: \"minioadmin\", secret_key: Secret([REDACTED alloc::string::String]), bucket: \"appflowy\", region: \"\" }"},"target":"appflowy_cloud::application"}
appflowy_cloud-1    | {"timestamp":"2024-05-09T11:37:53.222239Z","level":"INFO","fields":{"message":"Connecting to GoTrue..."},"target":"appflowy_cloud::application"}
appflowy_cloud-1    | {"timestamp":"2024-05-09T11:37:53.222248Z","level":"INFO","fields":{"message":"Connecting to GoTrue with setting: GoTrueSetting { base_url: \"http://gotrue:9999\", ext_url: \"https://appflowy.gladhost.cloud\", jwt_secret: Secret([REDACTED alloc::string::String]), admin_email: \"[email protected]\", admin_password: Secret([REDACTED alloc::string::String]) }"},"target":"appflowy_cloud::application"}
appflowy_cloud-1    | {"timestamp":"2024-05-09T11:37:53.226838Z","level":"ERROR","fields":{"error":"code: 403, msg:Signups not allowed for this instance, error_id: None"},"target":"gotrue::api","span":{"name":"sign_up"},"spans":[{"name":"sign_up"}]}
appflowy_cloud-1    | Error: Failed to initialize application state: code: 403, msg:Signups not allowed for this instance, error_id: None
appflowy_cloud-1    | 
appflowy_cloud-1    | Stack backtrace:
appflowy_cloud-1    |    0: anyhow::error::<impl anyhow::Error>::msg
appflowy_cloud-1    |    1: tokio::task::local::LocalSet::run_until::{{closure}}
appflowy_cloud-1    |    2: appflowy_cloud::main
appflowy_cloud-1    |    3: std::sys_common::backtrace::__rust_begin_short_backtrace
appflowy_cloud-1    |    4: main
appflowy_cloud-1    |    5: <unknown>
appflowy_cloud-1    |    6: __libc_start_main
appflowy_cloud-1    |    7: _start

[speed2exe]

@henri9813 During the initial set up, the admin will registered itself, it should work after the initial run. GOTRUE_DISABLE_SIGNUP is not documented yet.

[henri9813]

Hello,

Yes, but if a restart appflowy container, the container doesn't start anymore !

I open a related issue to fix this issue: #544

[DrilealoTatarara]

I'm having problems. When i add that line to the docker-compose.yml, it blocks sign-up's correctlu, but makes having problems to log in.