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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/12/13 12:46 AM, Kamal Palei wrote:<br>
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<div>Tracey<br>
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Thanks a lot. Probably spambot will guard against spam
users registration to some extent.<br>
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<div>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.<br>
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Thanks<br>
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kamal<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 8:19 PM,
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<div>I've used the spambot module and it helped but it
can't stop all unwanted registrations.
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<span>Tracey Hummel<br>
<span><em>Web Application Developer</em></span></span></div>
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<div><b>From:</b> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, June 11, 2013 4:22 AM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [support] How to safeguard sites
from unwanted users<br>
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<div>Dear ALL<br>
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I see almost everyday in my site
2 or 3 unwanted users are
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The user id is something like <b>sdfdxsxvxcvbcxmv</b>
which is totally somebody just
playing. I need to block such
accounts or more preferably reuse
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For me the concern is , once a user
is created, that user id is gone for
ever.<br>
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Next if I create another user, it will
take up the higher UID.<br>
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<div>Assuming these things keeps
happening, over few years of time we
will have lot of unnecessary accounts
in system, eating up resources for
nothing.<br>
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<div>Even if I delete these users, still
the user ID will not be reused.<br>
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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.<br>
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Best Regards<br>
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Kamal<br>
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Why are you worried about loss of a few UID's, the table? You can
have about 4 BILLION different UID's, if you are worried about using
up all your UIDs you site must be EXTREMELY active, and there are a
number of other things that need to be looked at well before you run
out of UIDs. (and a relatively small change in table schema can
increase the limit to virtually unlimited by changing UID to a
bigint everywhere it is stored).<br>
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Richard Damon</pre>
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