Spam Signups

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Neo Pixel

Tuesday 12 May 2009 11:07:53 am

I'm having a real problem with spam accounts being created.

Is there any plans to add captcha to the registration form as standard???

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André R.

Tuesday 12 May 2009 12:38:39 pm

What version is this? And are you talking user drafts or fully created user object that are just not activated?
In 4.1 user/register checks if you have a valid session before it will let you see the form (and hence creates the user draft), so most draft issues should be solved.

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Neo Pixel

Wednesday 13 May 2009 3:31:31 am

The version I'm using is 4.0.1 and the spam signups are fully created user accounts but not activated.

I haven't upgraded to 4.1.1 as yet, I might wait until 4.1.3 :)

A number of the sites I build arn't user driven so it's a shame there isn't just an option in the admin to switch off the registration form all together.

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Carlos Revillo

Wednesday 13 May 2009 4:00:48 am

I think you can disable it adding this to your settings/override/site.ini.append.php

[SiteAccessRules]
Rules[]=Access;disable
Rules[]=Module;user/register

Jon Staines

Wednesday 13 May 2009 8:34:25 am

On the sites where you do need a user sign up, try the reCAPTCHA extension: http://ez.no/developer/contribs/applications/recaptcha_ez4

Neo Pixel

Thursday 14 May 2009 3:40:43 am

Thanks for all your great advice and tips.

I'll look into using the recaptcha :-)

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