[moin-user] Moin in Debian Stable and anti-spam features

[Chris Freemesser]

On 04/25/2018 06:29 AM, Paul Boddie wrote:

> It is even necessary to prevent people *trying* to register new accounts, as
> this can easily cause user account data to accumulate in large volumes, even
> when those users won't have editing rights. Out of the box, for public sites,
> the newaccount action shouldn't be enabled.
Agreed...on my wiki server I have it disabled out of necessity.  On the 
(somewhat rare) occasion that I need to create a new account for one of 
my users I'll re-enable it long enough so I can create the account. 
Even if it only take me 60 seconds to do so, the spambots will have 
created an account or two that I have to manually delete later.  I've 
thought about trying to find a way to limit access to the account 
creation page to just the IP range of my institution but haven't 
actually looked into it.

Chris

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Chris Freemesser, Systems Administrator
Dept. of Brain & Cognitive Sciences +
The Center for Visual Science
University of Rochester
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