Configuring trac to avoid fake accounts

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Hello all,

We finally managed to have a working Trac 1.6 instance (woohoo!), but
there is still an annoying issue : fake account are created at an
alarming pace, and a few of them try to create spam tickets (we do not
have an open wiki).

I understand that there are solutions for spam creation, but I did not
see much about good solutions to avoid creation of these zombie accounts.

How do you handle that?

JMarc

[sailorickm]

Do you need to allow people to self-register? Our Trac is only used by employees, so I removed the account registration botton from the main menu. I think I found a setting for that (as opposed to modifying the code).

[Ryan Ollos]

This may be what you are looking for:

https://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/SpamFilter#SpamFilterandAccountManager

 

[JP 99]

@ryan Ollos - is SpamFilter compatible with trac 1.6? I'm seeing a lot of errors on startup, as per the below, and spambayes not supported on python3?

2024-06-11 14:24:59,179 Trac[loader] ERROR: Skipping "spamfilter = tracspamfilter.api":
2024-06-11 14:24:59,180 Trac[loader] DEBUG: Loading plugin "spamfilter.accountadapter" from "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages"
2024-06-11 14:24:59,189 Trac[loader] ERROR: Skipping "spamfilter.accountadapter = tracspamfilter.accountadapter [account]":
2024-06-11 14:24:59,189 Trac[loader] DEBUG: Loading plugin "spamfilter.adapters" from "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages"
2024-06-11 14:24:59,198 Trac[loader] ERROR: Skipping "spamfilter.adapters = tracspamfilter.adapters":
2024-06-11 14:24:59,198 Trac[loader] DEBUG: Loading plugin "spamfilter.admin" from "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages"
2024-06-11 14:24:59,206 Trac[loader] ERROR: Skipping "spamfilter.admin = tracspamfilter.admin":
2024-06-11 14:24:59,207 Trac[loader] DEBUG: Loading plugin "spamfilter.adminreport" from "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages"
2024-06-11 14:24:59,215 Trac[loader] ERROR: Skipping "spamfilter.adminreport = tracspamfilter.adminreport":
2024-06-11 14:24:59,215 Trac[loader] DEBUG: Loading plugin "spamfilter.adminusers" from "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages"
2024-06-11 14:24:59,223 Trac[loader] ERROR: Skipping "spamfilter.adminusers = tracspamfilter.adminusers":
2024-06-11 14:24:59,223 Trac[loader] DEBUG: Loading plugin "spamfilter.akismet" from "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages"
2024-06-11 14:24:59,231 Trac[loader] ERROR: Skipping "spamfilter.akismet = tracspamfilter.filters.akismet":
2024-06-11 14:24:59,231 Trac[loader] DEBUG: Loading plugin "spamfilter.bayes" from "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages"
2024-06-11 14:24:59,279 Trac[loader] DEBUG: Skipping "spamfilter.bayes = tracspamfilter.filters.bayes [spambayes]": DistributionNotFound: The 'spambayes; extra == "spambayes"' distribution was not found and is required by the application

[Jun Omae]

Hi,

On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 2:44 AM 'JP 99' via Trac Users
<trac-...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>
> @ryan Ollos - is SpamFilter compatible with trac 1.6? I'm seeing a lot of errors on startup, as per the below, and spambayes not supported on python3?
>
> 2024-06-11 14:24:59,179 Trac[loader] ERROR: Skipping "spamfilter = tracspamfilter.api":
> 2024-06-11 14:24:59,180 Trac[loader] DEBUG: Loading plugin "spamfilter.accountadapter" from "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages"
> 2024-06-11 14:24:59,189 Trac[loader] ERROR: Skipping "spamfilter.accountadapter = tracspamfilter.accountadapter [account]":
> 2024-06-11 14:24:59,189 Trac[loader] DEBUG: Loading plugin "spamfilter.adapters" from "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages"
> 2024-06-11 14:24:59,198 Trac[loader] ERROR: Skipping "spamfilter.adapters = tracspamfilter.adapters":
> 2024-06-11 14:24:59,198 Trac[loader] DEBUG: Loading plugin "spamfilter.admin" from "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages"
> 2024-06-11 14:24:59,206 Trac[loader] ERROR: Skipping "spamfilter.admin = tracspamfilter.admin":
> 2024-06-11 14:24:59,207 Trac[loader] DEBUG: Loading plugin "spamfilter.adminreport" from "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages"
> 2024-06-11 14:24:59,215 Trac[loader] ERROR: Skipping "spamfilter.adminreport = tracspamfilter.adminreport":
> 2024-06-11 14:24:59,215 Trac[loader] DEBUG: Loading plugin "spamfilter.adminusers" from "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages"
> 2024-06-11 14:24:59,223 Trac[loader] ERROR: Skipping "spamfilter.adminusers = tracspamfilter.adminusers":
> 2024-06-11 14:24:59,223 Trac[loader] DEBUG: Loading plugin "spamfilter.akismet" from "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages"
> 2024-06-11 14:24:59,231 Trac[loader] ERROR: Skipping "spamfilter.akismet = tracspamfilter.filters.akismet":
> 2024-06-11 14:24:59,231 Trac[loader] DEBUG: Loading plugin "spamfilter.bayes" from "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages"
> 2024-06-11 14:24:59,279 Trac[loader] DEBUG: Skipping "spamfilter.bayes = tracspamfilter.filters.bayes [spambayes]": DistributionNotFound: The 'spambayes; extra == "spambayes"' distribution was not found and is required by the application

Please install the source for Trac 1.6.x from spamfilter's repository.

See https://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/SpamFilter#GetthePlugin


--
Jun Omae <jun...@gmail.com> (大前 潤)

[JP 99]

Problem seems to be Python 2 code in spamfilter:

ERROR: Skipping "spamfilter = tracspamfilter.api":

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/trac/loader.py", line 80, in _load_eggs
    entry.load(require=True)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2465, in load
    return self.resolve()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2471, in resolve
    module = __import__(self.module_name, fromlist=['__name__'], level=0)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/tracspamfilter/__init__.py", line 17, in <module>
    from tracspamfilter.filtersystem import *
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/tracspamfilter/filtersystem.py", line 231
    except Exception, e:
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^
SyntaxError: multiple exception types must be parenthesized (filtersystem.py, line 231)

[Jun Omae]

On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 7:17 AM 'JP 99' via Trac Users
<trac-...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>
> Problem seems to be Python 2 code in spamfilter:
>
> ERROR: Skipping "spamfilter = tracspamfilter.api":
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/trac/loader.py", line 80, in _load_eggs
> entry.load(require=True)
> File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2465, in load
> return self.resolve()
> File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2471, in resolve
> module = __import__(self.module_name, fromlist=['__name__'], level=0)
> File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/tracspamfilter/__init__.py", line 17, in <module>
> from tracspamfilter.filtersystem import *
> File "/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/tracspamfilter/filtersystem.py", line 231
> except Exception, e:
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> SyntaxError: multiple exception types must be parenthesized (filtersystem.py, line 231)

Your installation is absolutely wrong.
No such code at
https://trac.edgewall.org/browser/plugins/trunk/spam-filter/tracspamfilter/filtersystem.py#L231.

Remove spamfilter completely and reinstall it.

[JP 99]

Thanks. I see the problem - tracspamfilter in pypi (pip) hasn't been updated since May-20.

[Jun Omae]

For Trac 1.6.x, install the plugin from repository, not PyPI.
See https://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/SpamFilter#GetthePlugin

On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 11:15 PM 'JP 99' via Trac Users

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[JP 99]

Thanks - for the benefit of the search (noob levels like me):

pip install babel

pip install svn+https://svn.edgewall.org/repos/trac/plugins/trunk/spam-filter

It would be useful to have the dependency on babel noted (maybe I just missed it).