[Moin-user] Can I block people from creating accounts if they don't verify their address?

[Steven W. Orr]

On 12/8/2011 11:05 AM, R.Bauer wrote:
> Hi
>
> read http://moinmo.in/HelpOnSpam and enable textchas
>
>
> cheers
> Reimar

As I mentioned:

...it's also coming in despite TextCha being enabled. That never used to be 
the case.

>
> Am 08.12.2011 16:05, schrieb Steven W. Orr:
>> On 12/8/2011 12:31 AM, John Hurst wrote:
>>> I had this problem.  I explored the web page below, but couldn't get it to work.
>>>
>>>     http://moinmo.in/FeatureRequests/DisableUserCreation
>>>
>>> Aftyer much trial and error, I eventually nurgled the _create_user routine in<your directory for python packages>/MoinMoin/action/newaccount.py to add a couple of lines
>>>
>>> def _create_user(request):
>>>       _ = request.getText
>>>       form = request.form
>>>
>>>       if not request.user.isSuperUser():
>>>           return _('You are not allowed to use this action.')
>>>
>>>       ...
>>>
>>> which does the trick by allowing only superusers to create new accounts.  However, it doesn't actually print the error message, but internal errors, for reasons I don't understand.  Oh well, it was a simple fix.  Perhaps someone else might explain what I'm doing wrong?
>>
>> This is not really what I want. I don't want other people to not be allowed to
>> create accounts. What I want is to prevent people from creating accounts whose
>> email address matches a pattern. In my case (today) the interlopers are all on
>> the .info TLD
>>
>> Another thing that would be wonderful would be if the account creation could
>> be completed only by responding to a confirmation email, the same as if you
>> were signing up for a mailing list.
>>
>> But, I don't want to disallow everyone from signing up as a default.
>>
>> BTW, I should mention that all of the spam that I'm getting is not only coming
>> from the .info TLD, it's also coming in despite TextCha being enabled. That
>> never used to be the case.
>>
>
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