From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8486 invoked by alias); 17 Dec 2010 04:05:54 -0000 Received: (qmail 8467 invoked by uid 22791); 17 Dec 2010 04:05:52 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 17 Dec 2010 04:05:46 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A9B22BAB2D; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 23:05:44 -0500 (EST) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 46yHD3a32Hxf; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 23:05:44 -0500 (EST) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7E932BAB2B; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 23:05:43 -0500 (EST) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7F254145B58; Fri, 17 Dec 2010 05:05:37 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 06:44:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" Cc: overseers@sourceware.org, Daniel Jacobowitz Subject: Re: abusive user of GDB Wiki for spam ... Message-ID: <20101217040537.GO2618@adacore.com> References: <20101127165330.GB29428@adacore.com> <20101213151136.GA25111@adacore.com> <20101216120523.GA22292@adacore.com> <20101216221104.GG9812@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20101216221104.GG9812@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact overseers-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: overseers-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-q4/txt/msg00085.txt.bz2 > 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