Stop users' multiple registrations

Software Support
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I came cross users in our user list with multiple accounts with different user names only. Is there any way to setup RULES for registration? Is there any plugin please?

Checks on registration on something like

  1. Unique ORCID number
  2. Unique emails

and enforcing email format,

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Hi @Dilan_Rostam,

Which of our software are you using, and what version?

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

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It is the latest stable version OJS 2.4.8 at

http://aro.koyauniversity.org/index

Thanks

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Hi @Dilan_Rostam,

In OJS 2.x, user account emails must be unique, and the email is validated to ensure that it’s a correct format. We don’t currently enforce unique ORCiDs, but I don’t think that’s a problem you’re seeing, correct?

If you see a lot of apparently random or similar registrations, you may be seeing automated registrations from spam bots etc. I would suggest enabling RECAPTCHA if that is the case; see your config.inc.php for details.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

5

Thank you, but o can see the same person has registered 3 times with the
same email but different usernames.

The ORCID unique mandatory field could be of great help. I hope these sort
of setting can be just check box selection to enable in OJS 3.

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Hi @Dilan_Rostam,

Duplicate accounts with the same email have been prohibited ever since OJS 2.0 was released; are you sure you haven’t made a local modification or something to permit this?

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

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Sorry I found out they they use the same email ID but different provider,
@yahoo, @gmail, @hotmail, Therefor I think making ORCID a unique condition
is much more secure.

Is there anything we can do manually to do this please

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Hi @Dilan_Rostam,

Currently this would require code modifications to the registration form, classes/user/form/RegistrationForm.inc.php.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

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Is there any instructions to do this please ?

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Hi @Dilan_Rostam,

Unfortunately we can’t help write modifications like this, but if you get stuck on a specific detail, perhaps I can give some assistance.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

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I am not programmer, so I do not dare to do any modification without
instruction. We leave it then. I hope it will be implemented in OJS 3, May
be a ORCID Plugin can adjust the whole journal based on every users unique
ORCID number.

Kind regards

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Totally agree with you! Gert