Re: [lfs-dev] Anonymous access to tickets in Trac is temporarily disabled

On Fri, 2025-01-03 at 15:58 -0600, Douglas R. Reno wrote:
> Good afternoon everyone,
> 
> Because of a malicious group of users attempting to scrape each 
> individual ticket in all of our Trac instances, we have had to 
> temporarily disable the ability for anonymous users to view tickets in
> the ticketing system. The group of users was causing a massive amount of 
> traffic which caused Trac to return Internal Server Errors and caused 
> major disruptions to those trying to use the system. Unfortunately, this 
> also breaks the ability for tickets listed in the changelog in the books 
> to be able to be viewed by users without accounts as well, limiting 
> access to information such as security vulnerabilities fixed or bugs 
> fixed in a package, as well as workarounds for issues in development books.
> 
> We are currently working toward a resolution to the problem, but no 
> timeline is available and users without an account in the Trac instances 
> will unfortunately be unable to access tickets until a fix is made.
> 
> If you would like access to Trac until the situation is resolved, please 
> contact Bruce Dubbs at [email protected] to get an account.

As a temporary workaround one can also browse the notification emails
for ticket updates at https://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/sympa/arc/lfs-
book/ (you know where to insert a "b" for BLFS), but if a comment has
been simply edited there won't be a notification email for the edit.


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Xi Ruoyao <[email protected]>
School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University

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