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

Fri Jun 10 11:02:35 UTC 2011

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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