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

Fri Jun 10 10:46:08 UTC 2011

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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