<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi all, </div><div><br></div><div>I just recently removed all users. I've tested it by registering one user for me. Apparently all is working.</div><div><br></div><div>You must register with the same username you've had in order to get all your privileges again. This is very important for the ticket moderators' users and trac admin users.</div><div><br></div><div>Please, if you find something broken just let me know. In the worst case scenario, we have a backup of our previous database.</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Samuel Cantero.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 8:38 PM, Walter Bender <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com" target="_blank">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Thanks for digging into this.<div><br></div><div>FWIW, I am fine with having my account deleted and re-registering. Whatever is most expedient for the trac maintainers.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>-walter</div></font></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 4:48 PM, Samuel Cantero <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:scanterog@gmail.com" target="_blank">scanterog@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 5:21 PM, James Cameron <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:quozl@laptop.org" target="_blank">quozl@laptop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 08:49:15AM -0300, Samuel Cantero wrote:<br> <span>> On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 3:39 AM, James Cameron <[1]<a href="mailto:quozl@laptop.org" target="_blank">quozl@laptop.org</a>> wrote:<br> ><br> > On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 02:32:36AM -0300, Samuel Cantero wrote:<br> > > Regarding to the inability to access the user page, I've checked our<br> > > current users and I found 97426 users. We had a lot of spam<br> > > here. I've checked this by doing:<br> > ><br> > > sqlite> select count(*) from session;<br> > > 97426<br> ><br> > Perhaps "session" is wrong table. My notes on this are;<br> ><br> > 0. trac.htdigest file is used to form list shown on manage user accounts,<br> ><br> > 1. passphrase is stored in trac.htdigest file,<br> ><br> > 2. the last login and authenticated flag are taken from session table,<br> ><br> > select * from session where sid = 'Quozl'; <br> ><br> > 3. name and e-mail are taken from session_attribute table,<br> ><br> > select * from session_attribute where sid = 'Quozl';<br> ><br> > We should delete all information inside session and session_attribute tables.<br> > We don't have any trac.htdigest file. Maybe 'cause we're storing pwd in the<br> > trac database (SessionStore) [1].<br> ><br> > The ideal would be to delete users through the trac-admin utility:<br> ><br> > • List users: trac-admin /project session list<br> ><br> > I can find here the same users that we find in the session table.<br> ><br> > • Delete users: trac-admin /project session delete <username1> ...<br> > <usernameN><br> ><br> > But doing this for ~90.000 users is not viable.<br> <br> </span>I'm guessing that you mean the unviable step is identifying the users.<br></blockquote><div><br></div></div></div><div>Yes.</div><span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <br> Take the entire set of users, then remove the set of users who have<br> created tickets or made comments, then use the set in a script that<br> deletes each user.<br> <br> Eventually it should complete.<br></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>I can only test this kind of procedure on weekends when I usually have more time. If you have time, go ahead.</div><div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <br> Then use whatever tools are necessary to optimise the table.<br> <span><br> ><br> > 4. deletion of the users via manage user accounts results in removal<br> > from trac.htdigest, removal from session table, removal from<br> > session_attribute table. <br> ><br> > Hope that helps.<br> ><br> > > [...]<br> > > I tried to remove all suspicious users with the trac-admin utility<br> > > and directly by database but this is almost imposible.<br> ><br> > It may require very careful scripting, yes. Last time I looked at<br> > that, I made a mistake deleted all users. (3rd March 2014, for<br> </span>> [2]<a href="http://dev.laptop.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">dev.laptop.org</a>). It hasn't been a problem since.<br> <span>><br> > > I guess we should delete all users and ask them to re-register<br> > > again. However, I don't want to proceed before your approval.<br> ><br> > I'm fine with that. Let's hear from others.<br> ><br> > --<br> > James Cameron<br> </span>> [3]<a href="http://quozl.netrek.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://quozl.netrek.org/</a><br> ><br> > [1] [4]<a href="https://trac-hacks.org/wiki/AccountManagerPlugin/AuthStores" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://trac-hacks.org/wiki/AccountManagerPlugin/AuthStores</a><br> ><br> > References:<br> ><br> > [1] mailto:<a href="mailto:quozl@laptop.org" target="_blank">quozl@laptop.org</a><br> > [2] <a href="http://dev.laptop.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://dev.laptop.org/</a><br> > [3] <a href="http://quozl.netrek.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://quozl.netrek.org/</a><br> > [4] <a href="https://trac-hacks.org/wiki/AccountManagerPlugin/AuthStores" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://trac-hacks.org/wiki/AccountManagerPlugin/AuthStores</a><br> <div><div><br> --<br> James Cameron<br> <a href="http://quozl.netrek.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://quozl.netrek.org/</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div></div></div><br></div></div> </blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div></div></div><span class="">-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><div><font><font>Walter Bender</font></font><br><font><font>Sugar Labs</font></font></div><div><font><a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank"><font>http://www.sugarlabs.org</font></a></font><br><a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank"><font></font></a><br></div></div></div> </span></div> </blockquote></div><br></div>