Yeah looks like the extension. I still haven't looked at the work one,
because I think I had that one set to allow full self-registration, because
that one was limited to only accept verified emails *from works domain*.

But I just finished setting up the new one on tandy.wiki, and I had to
install the extension ConfirmAccount. And then I had to get around the fact
that I wanted all admin emails to go to my gmail, but gmail was rejecting
email from my digital ocean ip address. But after squaring away the ptr
record and fqdn, and setting mediawiki to send to two different addresses
for myself, It's working like I want.

* A new user can read everything,
* can request an account from the login form,
* and the request makes them verify their email,
* then if verified, emails me at 2 different addresses so if I don't see
the gmail one, I'll still see the other, just less immediately,
* then I only have to click a link in the email to review the request and
ok it,
* and the same could be true for a group of admins instead of just myself.

I'm proceeding with the site because I have other tandy/trs-80 stuff
besides model-100 stuff I'm interested in.

Now I just hope there's not some nasty script that still kills the box
simply by filling the drive with account requests before I put in some kind
of rate limiter!


On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 12:21 AM, Brian White <[email protected]> wrote:

> I didn't know it was an extension. I'll double check the couple wikis I
> set up for work and see exactly what is done behind the scenes. I don't
> remember installing extensions, but I might have.
>
> On Mar 6, 2017 12:03 AM, "John R. Hogerhuis" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 8:22 PM, Brian White <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I'm quite sure I'd get clucked at if I had instead complained that
>>> someone else's thing they were providing for free didn't do what I wanted.
>>> They'd tell me to put up my own site!
>>>
>>
>> Actually I've always intended that it be community edited. Most of the
>> documentation is written by me precisely for that reason... if you want
>> something done you often have to do it yourself.
>>
>> For a while it was open for self registration. When it started getting
>> hit by spammers I researched it and captcha seemed to be the usual way to
>> go. If there's some intermediate mechanism I never found it.
>>
>> I see in a Google search there is a "ConfirmAccount" extension, is that
>> what you're talking about?
>>
>> -- John.
>>
>

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