[Mediawiki-l] Re: Never delete users !

Wed Oct 12 09:06:03 UTC 2005

Why would that be the case? Users are merely a row in a table in a
database, as far as the software is concerned, and databases are
designed to handle data...

I'm not sure what you think could be exploited.

Rob Church

On 12/10/05, Jani H. Lahtinen <jani.h.lahtinen at nokia.com> wrote:
> ext Rob Church wrote:
>
> >The advice in the subject line is correct. Users should never be
> >deleted from the table for another reason; you leave a lot of messy
> >references to them lurking about which really does confuse the hell
> >out of the software.
> >
> >MediaWiki does not support the deletion of users, and likely never will.
> >
> >
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> Does this not provide a fine attack against Mediawikis: make a bot that
> generates and register users. After some trillions of random users added
> the wiki is on its knees.
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