Re: [GNUnet-developers] Discussion, and Help Wanted: Moving to Gitlab for Git, CI, and Issues

[Florian Dold]

On 4/7/19 6:29 AM, Devan C. - dvn wrote:
> Until email/smtp is setup we will not have confirmation emails.

Ah.  I assumed the setup was mostly complete and you wanted feedback.

> Neither of these are actual problems right now, because it is easy
> enough to manually administer, prune, and moderate. I've deleted your
> "fake" Christian Grothoff account, and all the repos along with it.
> Took only a moment and a couple of clicks.

You wouldn't be able to distinguish these fake accounts from real
account, that's the point.

For company-internal intranet services it would be okay, but having a
service exposed on the public internet where everybody can create
accounts for any email address without owning it is totally unacceptable.

> I've also tightened up the permissions on the GNUnet group. "No harm, no
> foul" as they say...
> 
> To prevent any additional alarm, I have disabled registration. We can
> re-enable once we have email confirmation setup.

Good.

- Florian

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