[okfn-help] Preventing anonymous account creation + usage of trac?

Mon Aug 15 16:49:53 UTC 2011

I just deleted dozens and dozens of spam users from Trac. Can we
prevent anonymous user registration and restrict new accounts to
people who request them (e.g. by sending an email to OKF core team or
info at okfn.org)? Lucy and I thought this had already been locked
down...

J.

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
> Can we also prevent anyone from registering? I think we can do this on
> a case by case basis with existing admins. Presumably we won't have
> more than 2-3 per week?
>
> J.
>
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
>> Done - removed anonymous edit. We do have spam filtering on
>> http://trac.okfn.org/ (and ckan and openspending) and it does block a
>> lot but definitely not everyone.
>>
>> Rufus
>>
>> On 10 June 2011 11:24, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> We are getting spam messages, tickets and accounts on trac. Just
>>> deleted a bunch of spam users.
>>>
>>> As trac is probably not one of our highest traffic services - nor is
>>> it going to be - suggest we lock down registration and anonymous
>>> usage? Chances are if someone's using it - they probably got
>>> introduced to it by someone at OKF. And hence only a time bit of time
>>> to create them an account. Much like adding people to Wordpress
>>> multi-site blogs.
>>>
>>> Same with editing tickets. I would guess that most people who use it
>>> are probably logged in anyway. If they aren't logged in and they are
>>> part of OKF community - we probably want to encourage them to register
>>> so we know who has said what on which tickets. (E.g. we don't want an
>>> anonymous edit saying a ticket is closed - as we want to be able to go
>>> back and ask someone about it if there's an issue or a follow up
>>> item!).
>>>
>>> What do people think?
>>>
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>>> Jonathan Gray
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
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>
>
>
> --
> Jonathan Gray
>
> Community Coordinator
> The Open Knowledge Foundation
> http://blog.okfn.org
>
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