From 3f088a3f3d8a7cfd656dbd06650baed74250ee2e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christopher Allan Webber Date: Sat, 30 May 2015 10:27:37 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] "Should I enable registration?" section --- docs/source/siteadmin/deploying.rst | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/source/siteadmin/deploying.rst b/docs/source/siteadmin/deploying.rst index 673efb30..e75e6744 100644 --- a/docs/source/siteadmin/deploying.rst +++ b/docs/source/siteadmin/deploying.rst @@ -501,6 +501,29 @@ Instructions and scripts for running MediaGoblin on an Apache server can be found on the `MediaGoblin wiki `_. +Should I Enable Registration? +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +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: + +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:: + + [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. + +We hope to have a better solution to this situation shortly. We +apologize for the inconvenience in the meanwhile. + + Security Considerations ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- 2.25.1