New USER problems

Administrators
1

Hi,

At my Indico account i had an BOT that registered an account and have created false events in one public category.

How can this be avoided?

Best regards,

2

We may support requiring some kind of CAPTCHA during signup in a future version.

For now, the only workarounds are:

  • requiring manual approval of accounts
  • using SSO to login (but if everyone can create accounts, spammers may still abuse it)
  • making sure random users who create an indico account CANNOT create events

For the last point, you would do this by creating a group and adding all users that should have event permissions in there, and then restricting event creation in your categories and only allowing members of that group to create events.

3

Thanks for your answer.

But how can i setup that random users can’t create events?

And is there a way to list all Indico accounts in the web interface?

4

Check the category protection settings.

Not directly, but searching for @ in the email field (exact match disabled) should do the job.