Re: abusive user of GDB Wiki for spam ...

[Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>]

> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 04:05:23PM +0400, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> > [...]
> > The first thing I would do is delete these files (added to page
> > "rutud").  This requires special priviledges.
> 
> I zapped the files by low level fs ops.  Your wiki userid is now an
> 'admin' and should have despam privileges, if that's quite enough.

Thanks! The guy installed another batch of files, and I just found
that if I google "rutud", his ads are #2 and #3 on the result :-(.

> > The second thing is probably start a discussion with the other
> > GDB maintainers as to decide what to do to prevent this sort of
> > abuse. [...]
> 
> The easiest option is to disable wiki attachments by default, by
> adding 
> 
>      actions_excluded = [u'AttachFile']

I don't think that attachments are a very common operation on the GDB
wiki. Even if we ended up deciding not to use that solution, that could
be an acceptable compromise, I think, while the maintainers discuss
what they want to do...

Would you mind making that change for us?

Thanks a lot for your help,
-- 
Joel