Title: Feature Request: Deny users?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Feature Request: Deny users?

 *  [pgsengstock](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pgsengstock/)
 * (@pgsengstock)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-deny-users/)
 * First of all, thanks for a rock-solid plugin! It’s very clean, simple, and works
   great for network sites.
 * Second, I’d like to make a feature request. While automatic user creation is 
   awesome for sites that need it, I don’t like the prospect of letting unauthorized
   users sign in to my sites, even if it just creates a subscriber account. This
   is for use in education, so the only users I want being able to log in are those
   instructors or students who I’ve explicitly added.
 * You already have a checkbox for whether or not SSO logins will be synchronized
   with existing accounts. What about making another checkbox to also deny automatic
   account creation? I think a good implementation might be to let the user authenticate
   with their SSO credentials, but then show them a (customizable?) message that
   lets them know they’re not allowed to login to the backend. Then they could be
   automatically redirected to the front page (or some other customizable location).
 * The above suggestion assumes that no group membership information is being provided
   with the SSO session. Of course, if there is group membership info, we’d want
   to streamline things by allowing automatic account creation. But what about users
   who shouldn’t have access based on their group (i.e. site is public, but login
   is restricted to faculty, so students should be denied login)? I’d still like
   to see them denied login access and redirected to the front page. Maybe a better
   function for the checkbox would be “Deny automatic creation of unauthorized users.”
 * This is certainly not a requirement of this plugin, but from a user management
   standpoint, it’s gravy.
 * Thanks again!
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 * [SSO](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/sso/)
 * [user access](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/user-access/)

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 * Last reply from: [pgsengstock](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pgsengstock/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-deny-users/)
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