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Date:      Thu, 04 Dec 2014 12:10:25 -0500
From:      Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Wiki - Unable to create an account
Message-ID:  <54809581.4010802@freebsd.org>
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On 2014-12-04 10:20, Ricardo Santos wrote:
> Hello there,
>=20
> Some lists have spam problems too.
> I agree with Hakisho: We could have an approval system when adding new =
content to the wiki for new users or users with less than X posts and, pe=
rhaps, enable the registrations again. On the down side, that will give s=
ome more work to clusteradm.
>=20
> Have a nice day.
>=20
> Regards,
> Ricardo Santos
>=20
>> Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2014 01:00:00 +0000
>> Subject: Re: Wiki - Unable to create an account
>> From: nukama@gmail.com
>> To: kaduk@mit.edu; clusteradm@freebsd.org
>> CC: r.santos@live.co.uk; freebsd-doc@freebsd.org
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 6:57 PM, Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu> wrote:
>>> On Wed, 3 Dec 2014, Ricardo Santos wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Subject: Re: Wiki - Unable to create an account
>>>>> From: lists@isogram.nl
>>>>> Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 13:39:39 +0100
>>>>> CC: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org
>>>>> To: r.santos@live.co.uk
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>>> In order to share my experience with 11.0-CURRENT on my laptop, I =
would like to create an account at the wiki but I'm getting this error: '=
unknown action newaccount'.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is this an issue or the registrations have been disabled?
>>>
>>> Registrations have been disabled, and the last I checked, clusteradm =
will
>>> only create wiki accounts upon request of a FreeBSD committer.  The s=
pam
>>> problem was just too big.
>>>
>>> -Ben
>>
>> I nearly lost this thread in the current spam attack
>> on bugzilla. Are there considerations to change the settings,
>> so that first post of an account have to be approved first?
>>
>> This procedure could also be applied to new wiki accounts.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Hakisho Nukama
>  		 	   		 =20
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>=20

The problem is that the current wiki software is not based on a database

My understanding is:
When a new user attempts to register, it creates a directory based on
the username, and stores in it the files with the account details of the
user, permissions, etc.

This directory is created before email verification, so that email
verification is possible.

So the spam bots would create 40,000 accounts per day, and even if they
were not verified, they would cause performance problems on the servers
because of the volume of directories and files being created.

I also don't think that the moinmoin software supports a 'require
approval of first post/edit' feature.

I don't know what the solution is.

--=20
Allan Jude


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