How to Prevent Users from Creating Accounts

[yottabit42]

I like to run Mealie public-facing so we can always access our recipes from anywhere, but with 1.0 it seems there are a few issues compared to what I was used to in the earlier release:

1. The landing page does not show the recipes publicly (I understand this is a WIP and something like this will be added soon)
2. Any random person can create an account on my server

I'm most concerned with 2 above. How can I prevent random people from creating accounts on my server? :-)

I will close it to the outside, and add a VPN to my wife's phone if I have to, but I'm hoping there's an option in the settings I've missed somewhere...

[Kuchenpirat]

There is no deployment detail but i assume you are using a docker compose file.
There you can change the value of the env variable "ALLOW_SIGNUP" from true to false to disable signup without invitation on your server.

Hope this helps.

[yottabit42]

Awesome, thanks for the pointer. That did the trick!

[Kuchenpirat]

Yeah. Glad to help