Approve user sign-up to Help Center

Can Zendesk really get this feature done? I think it's a high-level security problem to a company. I don't want competitors to even take a glance into my knowledge base. If everyone can sign up and view the knowledge base easily, it makes no sense to set the permission. All I can do is just to check daily to kick out the strange sign up users, it's not reasonable. It's necessary to have approval settings. 

We also really need this feature to have control who has insight into our help-center and therefor a lot of detailed information of our product...

It's been 4yrs.  Any update on this?

We could really use this too.  Can we get this implemented ?

This feature request gets my vote too! 

Hey, all – We really appreciate the interest and feedback here. I can definitely see how this idea has merit. I agree that the gap between an open helpdesk anyone can join and a closed one in which all users need to be created by an agent is pretty big and leaves a lot of potential middle use cases out.

We don't have any plans around this right now, but we'll keep it in mind as we look at ways to enhance our tools for user management.

This remains an issue for our company where we have different organizations that are part of a broader account and all use the same email domain, so we cannot automatically add Org tags to endusers who register themselves. 

What would be super helpful is a simple trigger that anytime a new email address/user joins the Help Center and registers, a support ticket is generated to notify our help desk team so the contact can be verified and tagged.  That would provide a quick and easy way to verify who is registering for our system, and grant them the access they require to access what they need.