1
1
mirror of https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea synced 2025-07-19 00:38:36 +00:00

Save initial signup information for users to aid in spam prevention (#31852)

This will allow instance admins to view signup pattern patterns for
public instances. It is modelled after discourse, mastodon, and
MediaWiki's approaches.

Note: This has privacy implications, but as the above-stated open-source
projects take this approach, especially MediaWiki, which I have no doubt
looked into this thoroughly, it is likely okay for us, too. However, I
would be appreciative of any feedback on how this could be improved.

---------

Co-authored-by: Giteabot <teabot@gitea.io>
This commit is contained in:
techknowlogick
2024-09-09 17:05:16 -04:00
committed by GitHub
parent a323a82ec4
commit f183783baa
18 changed files with 61 additions and 23 deletions

View File

@@ -150,6 +150,14 @@ type User struct {
KeepActivityPrivate bool `xorm:"NOT NULL DEFAULT false"`
}
// Meta defines the meta information of a user, to be stored in the K/V table
type Meta struct {
// Store the initial registration of the user, to aid in spam prevention
// Ensure that one IP isn't creating many accounts (following mediawiki approach)
InitialIP string
InitialUserAgent string
}
func init() {
db.RegisterModel(new(User))
}
@@ -615,17 +623,17 @@ type CreateUserOverwriteOptions struct {
}
// CreateUser creates record of a new user.
func CreateUser(ctx context.Context, u *User, overwriteDefault ...*CreateUserOverwriteOptions) (err error) {
return createUser(ctx, u, false, overwriteDefault...)
func CreateUser(ctx context.Context, u *User, meta *Meta, overwriteDefault ...*CreateUserOverwriteOptions) (err error) {
return createUser(ctx, u, meta, false, overwriteDefault...)
}
// AdminCreateUser is used by admins to manually create users
func AdminCreateUser(ctx context.Context, u *User, overwriteDefault ...*CreateUserOverwriteOptions) (err error) {
return createUser(ctx, u, true, overwriteDefault...)
func AdminCreateUser(ctx context.Context, u *User, meta *Meta, overwriteDefault ...*CreateUserOverwriteOptions) (err error) {
return createUser(ctx, u, meta, true, overwriteDefault...)
}
// createUser creates record of a new user.
func createUser(ctx context.Context, u *User, createdByAdmin bool, overwriteDefault ...*CreateUserOverwriteOptions) (err error) {
func createUser(ctx context.Context, u *User, meta *Meta, createdByAdmin bool, overwriteDefault ...*CreateUserOverwriteOptions) (err error) {
if err = IsUsableUsername(u.Name); err != nil {
return err
}
@@ -745,6 +753,22 @@ func createUser(ctx context.Context, u *User, createdByAdmin bool, overwriteDefa
return err
}
if setting.RecordUserSignupMetadata {
// insert initial IP and UserAgent
if err = SetUserSetting(ctx, u.ID, SignupIP, meta.InitialIP); err != nil {
return err
}
// trim user agent string to a reasonable length, if necessary
userAgent := strings.TrimSpace(meta.InitialUserAgent)
if len(userAgent) > 255 {
userAgent = userAgent[:255]
}
if err = SetUserSetting(ctx, u.ID, SignupUserAgent, userAgent); err != nil {
return err
}
}
// insert email address
if err := db.Insert(ctx, &EmailAddress{
UID: u.ID,