More bogus users
Itś been quiet for some time, but abusers seem to have taken up steam. Today alone, I had to remove several bogus accounts on the VMS wiki. This blog seems to be popular as well, here as well these are simply deleted. These attempts are easy to determine: bogus domains (the wiki doesn’t check) or usernames. One way to prevent these on the blog is disallowing creating accounts without intervention, perhaps the latest version has a facility to mail a generated password to the email address specified by the user – both wiki and blog can be ‘secured’ that way….
Working on the new web-configuration doesn’t proceed as wanted. Mainly because the site is not accessible from the Internet, although things have been set up in such a way it should simply work. At least, it looks Ok. From the LAN I didn’t have a problem, I could access both ports: http and https,the latter allowing the admin pages – which allows real-time logging of the mapping. But from the outside, hhtp signals a “Not allowed ” message – sent by = the server – and https fails altogether, so I couldn’t check why this happened.. Posted it to the WASD mailing list – there is a tool I could use: HTTPDMON even when the admin pages are not available. So thatś for this weekend….
What goes on behind the doors of the (private) data center