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

[Matthew Flaschen]

Casey Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Matthew Flaschen
> <matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu> wrote:
>> Huib Laurens wrote:
>>> So a vandal has to make one account en can spam on all wiki's? Is
>>> there global blocking?
>> Yes.  See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_blocking
>>
> 
> Global blocking only works for IP addresses at this time (it was
> designed specifically that way).

My mistake.  However, it's still possible to run a checkuser then do a
global block on IP's that come up.

Matt Flaschen