I'm also running into dead ends trying figuring this one out.
Quoted from 4 Guys from rolla:
"
The Membership system enables user accounts to be marked as inactive
(not approved) and locked out. When creating a new user account, the
account is, by default, approved. However, in some scenarios you might
want to have an administrator manually approve new accounts before they
become active, or have the user progress through some automated process
(like clicking on a verification link sent through email). In either
case, the newly created user would be marked as inactive. Such a user
cannot log in to the site, as the ValidateUser(userName, password)
method will always return False, regardless of whether they entered
their correct credentials.
"
How can this default behavior be changed to "not approved" ?
Thanks much.
Mike