> 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 see there are 10 exec nodes for Buster (tools-sgeexec-10-<n>) and my cron 
jobs have been already running on every and each of them, producing around 40 
login notifications from a single wiki in the last 24 hours.

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

The bot framework I use (wiki-java) does not support OAuth yet. I'm looking 
forward to migrating to k8s soon, though. Perhaps this is not an issue on 
kubernetes nodes?

PB

Maximilian Doerr wrote:
> 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 &lt;bd808(a)wikimedia.org&gt; wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 5:43 AM Peter Bowman 
> > &lt;bwmn.peter(a)gmail.com&gt; 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
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