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 > -- > Bryan Davis Technical Engagement Wikimedia Foundation > Principal Software Engineer Boise, ID USA > [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] irc: bd808 > _______________________________________________ > Cloud mailing list -- [email protected] > List information: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/cloud.lists.wikimedia.org/ _______________________________________________ Cloud mailing list -- [email protected] List information: https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/cloud.lists.wikimedia.org/
