I agree that a username/password should be required, and I think its reasonable to require that the user be an hcoop member, but if people think non-members should be allowed wiki usernames/passwords that's cool too.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Clinton Ebadi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:clinton@unknownlamer.org">clinton@unknownlamer.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">Sajith T S <<a href="mailto:sajith@hcoop.net">sajith@hcoop.net</a>> writes:<br>
<br>
> Adam Chlipala <<a href="mailto:adam@chlipala.net">adam@chlipala.net</a>> wrote:<br>
>> The HCoop wiki is under attack by spammers who have been very successful<br>
>> at getting around the content filtering. In the past, I've taken the<br>
>> time to revert changes like this manually, but, given the volume this<br>
>> time, I don't think I have the energy. Is anyone willing to handle this<br>
>> and/or propose ways to block the attack in the first place?<br>
><br>
> How do I get permissions to revert wiki pages to known good versions?<br>
<br>
</div>I went ahead and got most of everything, and I think turned off all<br>
write access for non-admin users.<br>
<br>
I'll make the wiki writeable again tomorrow and hopefully the defacing<br>
will stop.<br>
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