Opened 11 years ago

Closed 8 years ago

#42484 closed defect (worksforme)

Spam tickets

Reported by: ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt) Owned by: skarulkar@…
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: server/hosting Version:
Keywords: Cc: cooljeanius (Eric Gallager), mf2k (Frank Schima)
Port:

Description

We are getting spam tickets on a daily basis. Is there anything we can do to try to prevent bots from signing up for Trac accounts?

Change History (12)

comment:1 Changed 11 years ago by mf2k (Frank Schima)

Cc: macsforever2000@… added

Cc Me!

comment:2 Changed 11 years ago by cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)

I just logged out so I could look at the "register" page, and currently all it asks you for is an email address and password... no CAPTCHA, no "are you a human" checkbox, nothing else like that... so there still is a bunch of stuff that could be added.

comment:3 Changed 11 years ago by cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)

Cc: egall@… added

Cc Me!

comment:4 Changed 11 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

I would like to at least have email verification (Trac sends you an email, you click a link to verify it's really you), if we don't have that already, and also Captcha. How can we add these? Are these Trac plugins we need to install? Can I as Trac admin do it, or would Bill or Shree have to do it?

comment:5 Changed 11 years ago by mf2k (Frank Schima)

Cc: mf2k@… added

Cc Me!

comment:6 Changed 11 years ago by mf2k (Frank Schima)

Cc: macsforever2000@… removed

comment:7 Changed 10 years ago by mf2k (Frank Schima)

Owner: changed from wsiegrist@… to skarulkar@…

comment:8 Changed 10 years ago by skarulkar@…

I have enabled Captcha, let me know if it works or causes any issues. -Shree

comment:9 Changed 10 years ago by mf2k (Frank Schima)

I just created a new test account. There was no captcha though. The only thing that happened was an email confirmation.

Last edited 10 years ago by mf2k (Frank Schima) (previous) (diff)

comment:10 Changed 10 years ago by mf2k (Frank Schima)

And indeed a new spam ticket appeared #43898.

comment:11 in reply to:  8 Changed 10 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

Replying to skarulkar@…:

I have enabled Captcha, let me know if it works or causes any issues. -Shree

We are still getting spam tickets. I assume captcha did not get enabled?

comment:12 Changed 8 years ago by raimue (Rainer Müller)

Resolution: → worksforme
Status: new → closed

I doubt spam will be a problem now that we require GitHub login. We also have a new "Report Spam" button in the upper right of every page.

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