So here is my hack for allowing site administrator to enable/disable user registration via the new permission system.
First I modify the user.php under NS-NewUser module with the following:
if (!(authorised(0, 'NewUser::', '::', ACCESS_READ))) {
include 'header.php';
echo _REGISTERNOAUTH;
include 'footer.php';
return;
}Then I modify the global.php under the module lang eng directory by adding:
define("_REGISTERNOAUTH","Sorry this site does not accept user registration at this moment. Please contact site administrator for requesting user account.");
By default, this is enable. If you want to disable the user registration, just simply add a group permission rule: All Realm, Unregistered,NewUser::,.*,None
Make this rule sequence right after the All realms,Unregistered,Menublock::,Main Menu:(My Account|Logout|Submit News):,None
Then you are set to go. Hope this will help some of the corporate users and may be this can be merged into the core release in the future.