900+ Anonymous Users in 5 Hours

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  • January 8, 2014 at 1:19 pm #88776
    markappeal
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    Not sure what happened to my first post so I am posting again.
    I activated Community Events Add-On and within about 5 or so hours I had 900+ anonymous users signed up for my site with one being added every 3 or so minutes.
    Not sure if it was a bug or setting but I ended up having to complete delete the site to stop the adds.
    Deactivating the plug in would not even stop it.
    Please Advise

    January 9, 2014 at 12:59 pm #89508
    Casey
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    markappeal,
    So sorry to hear about that! Hopefully I can help you out. Did you disable user registration on your site by going into ‘Settings’ and unchecking this box: http://screencloud.net/v/pk3W ?

    January 9, 2014 at 8:40 pm #89823
    markappeal
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    Thanks for your reply
    Well open registration was turned off in the WordPress options
    And a separate security plugin called for both captcha and manual admin approval of all new registrations.
    Also “anonymous” user designation was only a setting in the Community Events plugin as WP only has Subscriber Contributor Author Editor and Admin

    January 13, 2014 at 12:28 pm #91355
    Casey
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    markappeal,
    I guess I’m still confused. Could you help me understand your setup a bit more? If ‘Anyone can register’ is turned off in your WP Settings, why would you need a captcha and manual admin approval of registrations?

    January 14, 2014 at 5:58 am #92071
    markappeal
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    I do not NEED a captcha or manual admin. They are security settings that are part of a plugin. (All in One Security) Both of these options where on while the default “anyone can register” option was off. As this will be a community site and we are still in heavy development they will be used at a later time.

    More importantly – why they are there is really immaterial to the problem at hand. Which is in-spite of the security options turned on and the register option turned off – The CE addon created the “anonymous” designation and then preceded to systematically add “anonymous” users every few minutes even AFTER being deactivated.

    Which to me says two things. While the security features seem to work in normal sign up situations the CE addon seems to bypass those features in some way ( which not necessarily your problem) the other is that it SEEMS to be a serious bug in the add on – which is a MT problem that I am trying to address.

    January 14, 2014 at 6:05 am #92074
    markappeal
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    This reply is private.

    January 14, 2014 at 2:13 pm #92452
    Casey
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    This reply is private.

    January 24, 2014 at 1:28 pm #96633
    Casey
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    markappeal,
    I just wanted to check back in and see if you’re still having issues here. Just let me know and we can continue to investigate, otherwise I’ll go ahead and close out this thread. Just let me know! Thanks so much!

    -Casey-

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