[pmwiki-users] Newbie has been hi-jacked

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 12:27:44PM -0700, Amy Sweetman wrote:
>    Hello all,
>    I took on a project with this pm wiki program that I probably had no
>    business taking on, but it was a good idea at the time and it has received
>    lots of support.  Anyway,  I really don't know much at all about computers
>    and I just struggled to get my site up and rolling.  Now that it is up and
>    people are using it, I have been informed that it has been hijacked and
>    that my weblink is being used to post porn on blogs.  

Eek!  

The best thing you can do is to place an edit password on your site,
to restrict editing to trusted users.  For example, to set an edit
password of "secret", add the following to your local/config.php file:

    $DefaultPasswords['edit'] = crypt('secret');

If for some reason you're unable to do that for your site, let us
know and we can offer some other suggestions.

Pm