I am migrating an OJS 2.4.8 installation from an institutional server to a private server as they are sunsetting support for OJS. The institutional installation was using LDAP for account holders who were employees, and had turned off new user registrations. While I had an account on the institutional server, it was authenticated via LDAP and thus has no password in the db. With new registrations turned off, I can’t also just create a new account via the user interface.
I attempted to disable LDAP via the db (removing the ldap line from the auth_sources table), and thought a had enabled new registrations by setting “disableUserReg” in the journal_settings table to 0, but I still get the message that the journal (on our new private server) is not accepting registrations.
Any advice/insights would be greatly appreciated.
(BTW, once I can get this install working and verify the integrity of the data transfer, we’ll be upgrading to supported versions, but working through these issues first.)