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).kamalThanksTraceyThanks 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.
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 8:19 PM, Hummel, Tracey S - (thummel) <thummel@email.arizona.edu> wrote:
I've used the spambot module and it helped but it can't stop all unwanted registrations.
Tracey
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Tracey Hummel
Web Application Developer
From: support-bounces@drupal.org [support-bounces@drupal.org] on behalf of Kamal Palei [palei.kamal@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 4:22 AM
To: support@drupal.org
Subject: [support] How to safeguard sites from unwanted users
KamalBest RegardsNext if I create another user, it will take up the higher UID.For me the concern is , once a user is created, that user id is gone for ever.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.Dear ALLI see almost everyday in my site 2 or 3 unwanted users are created.
Assuming these things keeps happening, over few years of time we will have lot of unnecessary accounts in system, eating up resources for nothing.
Even if I delete these users, still the user ID will not be reused.
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.
-- Richard Damon