[pmwiki-users] Persistent attacks on pages

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Wed Apr 26 08:42:56 CDT 2006


On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 11:23:18AM -0400, Neil Herber wrote:
> At 2006-04-23  11:13 AM -0400, Pico is rumored to have said:
> >b. Password Protecting the page would make it harder for people to add
> >comments.  On the other hand, maybe the comments should be broken off to
> >a separate page, leaving the basic recipe to be password protected.
> >That has other benefits for this page because its comments have included
> >long lines of literal text that throws off the screen size.
> 
> I would suggest password protecting the page, but revealing the 
> password in plain text on the page so that humans can read it. The 
> type of attack you are describing sounds like a robot or zombie, and 
> they don't bother password protected pages as a general rule.
> 
> Example: "To edit this page, you need to use the password 'zxcv' 
> without the quotes."  Put this somewhere near the top of the page.

Even better, just protect the page with PmWiki's site password ("quick").

Pm




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