Re: [opensuse-wiki] You do not have permission to edit this page

On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 4:43 PM, Christian Boltz <opensuse@cboltz.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Am Freitag, 23. Dezember 2016, 16:16:56 CET schrieb PatrickD Garvey:
>> I was merrily rolling along reading and editing wiki articles, when I
>> get:
>
>> Autoblocked because your IP address has been recently used by
>> "Nishan9".
>
>
>> Is there someone who can help move me out of this predicament?
>
> I just unblocked the IP, so you should be able to edit the wiki again.
>
> FYI: This was collateral damage from auto-blocking a spammer. The IP is
> one of the AccessManager authentification proxies, and for the wiki it
> looks like all traffic is coming from this proxy.
> I already whitelisted some IPs, but I know that there's at least one
> that isn't on the whitelist. (As long as we are on the current hardware,
> getting changes deployed is a bit, well, complicated ;-) and it's
> easier for me to unblock someone once a month ;-)
>
> I work on updating the wiki and moving it to new hardware (which will
> also give me SSH access to the wiki servers) [1]. Once this is done,
> getting rid of the accidential IP blocking will be easy.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Christian Boltz
>
> [1] Actually there's a bit more involved (for example getting the server
> setup done using Salt). If you are interested in more details, have
> a look at http://lists.opensuse.org/heroes/2016-12/msg00002.html and
> http://lists.opensuse.org/heroes/2016-12/msg00004.html
>
> --

Thanks, Christian

I'm back to editing. I'm glad you were available. I'm sure we'll all
benefit from the work of the heroes.
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