[support] How to safeguard sites from unwanted users

[Kamal Palei]

Tracey
Thanks a lot. Probably spambot will guard against spam users registration
to some extent.

If somehow, some spam users register in site (we can determine manually or
automated way), I would like to re-use the UID allocated for spam users
should be re-used for future valid users. In that case, do we have any
modules or any existing mechanism to achieve re-using the UIDs allocated to
spam users previously.


Thanks
kamal





On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 8:19 PM, Hummel, Tracey S - (thummel) <
thummel at email.arizona.edu> wrote:

>  I've used the spambot module and it helped but it can't stop all
> unwanted registrations.
>
>  Tracey
>
>   --------------------
> Tracey Hummel
> *Web Application Developer*
> tracey at arizona.edu
> http://tshummel.com
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> *From:* support-bounces at drupal.org [support-bounces at drupal.org] on behalf
> of Kamal Palei [palei.kamal at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, June 11, 2013 4:22 AM
> *To:* support at drupal.org
> *Subject:* [support] How to safeguard sites from unwanted users
>
>      Dear ALL
>  I see almost everyday in my site 2 or 3 unwanted users are created.
>  The user id is something like *sdfdxsxvxcvbcxmv* which is totally
> somebody just playing. I need to block such accounts or more preferably
> reuse such accounts.
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>  For me the concern is , once a user is created, that user id is gone for
> ever.
>  Next if I create another user, it will take up the higher UID.
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>  Assuming these things keeps happening, over few years of time we will
> have lot of unnecessary accounts in system, eating up resources for nothing.
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>  Even if I delete these users, still the user ID will not be reused.
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>  Within Drupal framework, is there any existing mechanism where, we can
> tell to re-use certain user ID when creating new users. If NOT existing, if
> somebody guides me, am ready to make one.
>
>  Best Regards
>  Kamal
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