Posts for the month of June 2017

Registered usernames can no longer be used by an anonymous author

Until now a registered user has been able to make a change without authenticating, by entering their username in the author field. Any user could make a comment using a registered username. While this hasn't been a significant problem up until now, it was possible that a user could make changes with malicious intent, disguising themselves as a registered user. The issue was discussed in #11622 and changes have been deployed to trac-hacks.org.

Please note that you are still free to make a comment or create a ticket using a username or email that has not been registered at trac-hacks.org. If you have any questions or concerns please leave a comment below.