[Moin-user] New accounts

[Steve McIntyre]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 08:41:32AM -0400, Chris Freemesser wrote:
>On 3/12/12 6:45 AM, Hugo Gomes wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 	
>> 	I'm having problems with bots creating new accounts, Is there any
>> solution to implement only in account creation to solve this problems?
>> Like a captcha system to new accounts?
>
>I'm seeing a similar problem...all of a sudden, bots are creating numerous 
>accounts on our wikis.  If Captcha isn't an option, is there any easy way to 
>disable account creation or limit it so only certain designated users can 
>create new accounts?

I have a patch for recaptcha with moin, used for wiki.debian.org. See

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=20110811163911.GF14260%40einval.com&forum_name=moin-user

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve at einval.com
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 as meaning someone who's only ever written one device driver." -- Daniel Pead