[okfn-help] failed to register

Thu Aug 2 11:16:05 UTC 2012

Ah, thanks for this Bobby and Nils. Will let people know it's working
again.

Kat

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On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 10:17 PM, Bobby Donovan <bobby at bobbydonovan.com>wrote:

> The Captcha plugin active on both the Register & Password reset forms
> was inadvertently broken during after the recent hack and repair of the
> blog farm. Nils and I reset permissions on many files and directories to
> lock things down, which prevented this plugin from working correctly.
>
> I've now set the correct permissions and added the directory in question
> to the "wordpress-writable-dirs" script.
>
> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 8:05 AM, Kat Braybrooke <kat.braybrooke at okfn.org>wrote:
>
>> As a quick addition to this, I've also gotten mention (which I forwarded
>> to SysAdmin list) that another OKFN user was having trouble recovering his
>> password for the account - every time he tries, he receives an error
>> message.
>>
>> Kat
>>
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>> @ardent_coeur
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>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 6:40 AM, Lucy Chambers <lucy.chambers at okfn.org>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Lars,
>>>
>>> I'm forwarding your message on to the okfn-help mailing list. Someone
>>> there may be able to help. One note: if you already have an account or
>>> someone else is already logged in on the same computer, the register
>>> page may not work properly in that case, try logging out and back in
>>> again!
>>>
>>> Lucy
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Lars Borin <lars.borin at svenska.gu.se>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Dear OKFN infodesk,
>>> >
>>> > I tried multiple times to register using the form at
>>> > <http://okfn.org/register/>. After clicking "Complete Sign Up", I
>>> ended up
>>> > on the same page again, without any indication of whether things had
>>> gone
>>> > right or wrong and if the latter, what should be done to correct the
>>> error.
>>> >
>>> > Best
>>> > Lars Borin
>>> >
>>> > --
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>>> > --
>>> > Lars Borin
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>>> >
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>>> >
>>> > <http://språkbanken.gu.se/personal/lars/<http://xn--sprkbanken-35a.gu.se/personal/lars/>
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Lucy Chambers
>>> Community Coordinator,
>>> OpenSpending & Data Journalism
>>> Open Knowledge Foundation
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>>> Twitter: @lucyfedia
>>>
>>
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