Hi Klaus,

i know that your still alive, i see it in the commit logs :-)

We just have a bunch of translators which offered help two years ago,  
when I setup the new website. And i just have no overview at the  
moment whats up with this accounts. This where mostly   people, not  
know to me or ralf.

cu
conny



Am 06.02.2008 um 10:07 schrieb Klaus Leithoff:

> Hi Connie,
> good thing you noticed, and acted that fast. Thanks for that.
> As you go disabling nonactive editors, please leave my grants to edit
> knowledgebase, even that my work there is lacking the much needed
> activity I promised for the CodeCorner.
> Best regards.
> Klausi
>
> "Cornelius Weiss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb:
>> Hi devs,
>>
>> yesterday at 17:40 CET the egroupware.org website got hijacked by a
>> user named "Lutz Falkenburg".
>>
>> He managed to disable the newssection and some html blocks on the
>> frontpage and on the news page.
>>
>> The attack came from a valid egroupware.org account. This user had  
>> the
>> technical grants to do so, due to his membership of the groups
>> 'editors' and 'manaual'. He got this memberships about two years ago,
>> cause he offert do translate website and manaual into german  
>> language.
>>
>> However afaik this user never translated stuff, and kept inactive
>> about two years, till yesterday.
>> As i was the one, granting this privileges, I applogize for missing  
>> to
>> remove the grants after it became clear that this user is mainly a  
>> jerk.
>>
>> In my function as being teamleader of the webmasters team, i
>> deactivated the account and restored our website.
>>
>> The same user also tried to rampage in the tine forum. We noticed
>> attacs from different IP's which lastely seem to come from the TOR
>> network.
>>
>> As a result i would like to implement a feature which prevents  
>> editing
>> egroupware.org website from TOR network or other known hijacked IP's.
>> If somone knows a PHP library for this task, please let me know.
>>
>> The atacker is a known jerk from the german users list, famous for
>> verbally attacking developers, admins and supporters of the project.
>> In the last days he uses the absence of ralf and labes himself as
>> 'official project member'. Unfortunally I cant remove him from the
>> lists, as i don't have the lists password. Ralf gave i to me before
>> his vacation last year but i can't find it in my records.
>>
>> In the next days i'll have a look at the access grants for the
>> egroupware.org website an remove not longer active translaters and
>> editor accounts.
>>
>> cu
>> conny
>>
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