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| author | Ben Sturmfels <ben@sturm.com.au> | 2021-09-04 22:48:23 +1000 |
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| committer | Ben Sturmfels <ben@sturm.com.au> | 2021-09-04 22:48:23 +1000 |
| commit | 120f144f0eb014e694a584a627c8b17856da5b51 (patch) | |
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Disable registrations by default due to spam.
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diff --git a/docs/source/siteadmin/production-deployments.rst b/docs/source/siteadmin/production-deployments.rst index 52563e6e..022d8175 100644 --- a/docs/source/siteadmin/production-deployments.rst +++ b/docs/source/siteadmin/production-deployments.rst @@ -18,28 +18,30 @@ Further Considerations for Production Deployments This page extends upon our ":doc:`deploying`" guide to describe some common issues affecting production deployments. +.. _enable-registration: Should I Keep Open Registration Enabled? ---------------------------------------- -Unfortunately, in this current release of MediaGoblin we are suffering -from spammers registering to public instances en masse. As such, you -may want to either: +Unfortunately, enabling public registrations in MediaGoblin will usually result +in many thousands of automated spam registrations. Spam accounts will typically +remain un-activated, but the volume alone may cause poor performance on your +site. For this reason, registrations are disabled by default and we recommend +against enabling public registration. -a) Disable registration on your instance and just make - accounts for people you know and trust (eg via the `gmg adduser` - command). You can disable registration in your mediagoblin.ini - like so:: +Should you choose to enable registration, you can update in your mediagoblin.ini +like so:: [mediagoblin] allow_registration = false -b) Enable a CAPTCHA plugin. But unfortunately, though some CAPTCHA - plugins exist, for various reasons we do not have any general - recommendations we can make at this point. +Alternatively, you may wish to just make accounts for people you know and trust +(eg via the `gmg adduser` command). -We hope to have a better solution to this situation shortly. We -apologize for the inconvenience in the meanwhile. +A further option may be to enable a CAPTCHA plugin. But unfortunately, though +some CAPTCHA plugins exist, for various reasons we do not have any general +recommendations we can make at this point. We hope to provide a better solution +to this problem in the future. Confidential Files |