OAuth gets around this.  If you login with OAuth, those emails don’t happen at 
all. 

Cyberpower678
English Wikipedia Administrator
English Wikipedia Interface Administrator

> On Feb 16, 2022, at 11:49, Bryan Davis <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 5:43 AM Peter Bowman <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello. Yesterday, I started scheduling my cron jobs on the grid with the 
>> `--release buster` option (previously was defaulting to Stretch). I have 
>> gotten dozens of "Someone (probably you) recently logged in to your account 
>> from a new device" notifications since then. Can I do anything to stop this 
>> other than disable those notifications altogether?
> 
> My guess is that you are seeing this because your jobs are now running
> on a new set of Cloud VPS instances (the Toolforge Buster grid engine
> exec nodes) and these new instances have IP addresses that the wikis
> have not seen you use before. I would expect the alerts to stop once
> your jobs have been scheduled and executed from each of the available
> Buster exec nodes.
> 
> I am not aware of any way to preemptively tell MediaWiki something
> like "I expect my account to connect from this range of IPs", but
> maybe someone else knows a trick?
> 
> Bryan
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> Principal Software Engineer                               Boise, ID USA
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