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 <bd808(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 5:43 AM Peter Bowman <bwmn.peter(a)gmail.com> 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
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