[Foundation-l] Autocreated global accounts (was: [Wikitech-l] $wgCentralAuthAutoNew=true)

[Huib Laurens]

So a vandal has to make one account en can spam on all wiki's? Is
there global blocking?

2008/8/22, Chad <innocentkiller op gmail.com>:
> Just wanted to let the wider community (who don't
> necessarily follow wikitech-l) know about this.
>
> -Chad
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Tim Starling <tstarling op wikimedia.org>
> Date: Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 2:14 AM
> Subject: [Wikitech-l] $wgCentralAuthAutoNew=true
> To: wikitech-l op lists.wikimedia.org
>
>
> $wgCentralAuthAutoNew is now enabled, which means new accounts created in
> the usual way automatically become global accounts, they don't need to
> manually merge.
>
> -- Tim Starling
>
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