Hi,

> Simon Steiner <[email protected]> hat am 22. April 2016 um 10:17
> geschrieben:
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
>  
> 
> I cant create/comment on pdfbox issues anymore.
I've added your account ot the contributor group so that you should be able to
comment/creat again

BR
Andreas

> 
>  
> 
> Thanks
> 
>  
> 
> From: Gav [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: 22 April 2016 01:14
> To: [email protected] Infrastructure <[email protected]>
> Subject: Jira Spam - And changes made as a result.
> 
>  
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Apologies for notifying you after the fact.
> 
> Earlier today (slowing down to a halt about 1/2 hr ago due to our changes) we
> had a
> 
> big Spam attack directed at the ASF Jira instance.
> 
> Many project were affected, including :-
> 
> TM, ARROW ACCUMULO, ABDERA, JSPWIKI, QPIDIT, LOGCXX, HAWQ, AMQ, ATLAS,
> AIRFLOW, ACE, APEXCORE, RANGER and KYLIN .
> 
> During the process we ended up banning 27 IP addresses , deleted well over 200
> tickets, and about 2 dozen user accounts.
> 
> The spammers were creating accounts using the normal system and going through
> the required captchas.
> 
> In addition to the ban hammer and deletions and to prevent more spam coming
> in, we changed the 'Default Permissions Scheme' so that anyone in the
> 'jira-users' group are no longer allowed to 'Create' tickets and are no longer
> allowed to 'Comment' on any tickets.
> 
> Obviously that affects genuine users as well as the spammers, we know that. 
> 
> Replacement auth instead of jira-users group now includes allowing those in
> the 'Administrator, PMC, Committer, Contributor and Developer' ROLES in jira.
> 
> Projects would you please assist in making this work - anyone that is not in
> any of those roles for your project; and needs access to be able to create
> issues and comment, please do add their jira id to one of the available roles.
> (Let us know if you need assistance in this area)
> 
> This is a short term solution. For the medium to long term we are working on
> providing LDAP authentication for Jira and Confluence through Atlassian Crowd
> (likley).
> 
> If any projects are still being affected, please notify us as you may be using
> another permissions scheme to the one altered. Notify us via INFRA jira ticket
> or reply to this mail to [email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>  or join us on hipchat
> (https://www.hipchat.com/gIjVtYcNy)
> 
> Any project seriously adversely impacted by our changes please do come talk to
> us and we'll see what we can work out.
> 
> Thanks all for your patience and understanding.
> 
> Gav... (ASF Infra)
>

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