Forum registration captcha

Hi!
I think the forum registration captcha ("For which Linux distribution is this forum?") should accept either "Arch", "Arch Linux" and "Archlinux" as correct replies. It took me several minutes of uselessly twiddling with my browser settings before I hit on trying to spell it the latter way.
At least I think that's what finally got me registered. Please pardon me if I am wrong.

Busata wrote:We could also include a pacman flash game that new users have to complete before finalizing registration.
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Trying to add captcha to forum registration page...

I just put up a site and my forum is getting terrible spam so I need to add a captcha to the registration page.
Here is the html code with my attempt to add a captcha module with the help of a support agent, it does not work for some reason.
<h1>Forum Registration</h1>
<div class="error">{module_error}</div>
<div class="forum-registration">
<h2>Existing Users - Login</h2>
<form method="post" action="{module_pageaddress}" onsubmit="return check_RegistrationForm(this,'login')">
    <div class="form">
    <div class="item">
    <input type="hidden" name="OrderLogin_Info" />
    <label>Username</label><br />
    <input name="Username" maxlength="255" class="cat_textbox" />
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    <div class="item">
    <label>Password</label><br />
    <input type="password" name="Password" maxlength="255" class="cat_textbox" />
    </div>
    <div class="item">
    <input type="submit" value="Login" class="cat_button" /><a href="#" onclick="document.getElementById('lostpassword').style.display='inline';return false;">Forgot your username/password?</a>
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</form>
<form method="post" action="/LostPasswordProcess.aspx" name="catseczonelpform57982" style="display: none;" id="lostpassword">
    <h2>Forgot Password</h2>
    <div class="form">
    <div class="item">
    <label>Enter Username or Email Address</label><br />
    <input name="Username" maxlength="255" class="cat_textbox" />
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    <div class="item">
    <input type="submit" value="Retrieve" class="cat_button" /><br />
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</form>
<hr />
<h2>New User - Registration</h2>
<form method="post" action="{module_pageaddress}" onsubmit="return check_RegistrationForm(this,'newuser')">
    <div class="form">
    <div class="item">
    <input type="hidden" name="OrderRegistration_Info" />
    <label>Name</label><br />
    <input name="Registration_Name" value="{module_RegistrationInfo,Name}" class="cat_textbox" />
    </div>
    <div class="item">
    <label>Email</label><br />
    <input name="Registration_Email" value="{module_RegistrationInfo,Email}" class="cat_textbox" />
    </div>
    <div class="item">
    <label>User Name</label><br />
    <input name="Registration_Username" value="{module_RegistrationInfo,Username}" class="cat_textbox" />
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    <label>Password</label><br />
    <input type="password" name="Registration_Password" value="{module_RegistrationInfo,Password}" class="cat_textbox" />
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    <div class="item">
    <label>Confirm Password</label><br />
    <input type="password" name="Registration_ConfirmPassword" value="{module_RegistrationInfo,ConfirmPassword}" maxlength="255" class="cat_textbox" />
    </div>
    <div class="item">
    <label>Alias</label><br />
    <input name="Registration_Alias" value="{module_RegistrationInfo,Alias}" class="cat_textbox" />
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    <div class="item">
    <label>Signature</label><br />
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    <label>Enter Word Verification in box below <span class="reg">*</span></label><br />
    {module_recaptcha}</div>
    <div class="item">
    <input type="submit" value="Register" class="cat_button" />
    </div>
    </div>
</form>
</div>

<script type="text/javascript" src="/CatalystScripts/ValidationFunctions.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
    //<![CDATA[
     function check_RegistrationForm(theForm,name) { var why = ""; if (name == 'login') { why += isEmpty(theForm.Username.value, "Username"); why += isEmpty(theForm.Password.value, "Password"); } else { why += isEmpty(theForm.Registration_Name.value, "Full Name"); why += isEmpty(theForm.Registration_Email.value, "Email Address"); why += isEmpty(theForm.Registration_Username.value, "Username"); why += isEmpty(theForm.Registration_Password.value, "Password"); why += isEmpty(theForm.Registration_ConfirmPassword.value, "Password Confirmation"); if (theForm,CaptchaV2) why += captchaIsInvalid(theForm, "Enter Word Verification in box below", "Please enter the correct Word Verification as seen in the image"); } if (why != "") {   alert(why);   return false; }    return true; }
    //]]>
</script>

You can do that on all forms Penny, Does keep them clean.
It does mean that with no javascript they will never work, but in this day an age that should not be an issue.
It looks like they were not hitting the registration url, but may have had a cached version of the page and using that to submit Penny.
Its a good sollution - ideally for properness data- is a html5 attribute so the doctype really needs to be that. In XHML using rel="" on the form with the action in there is a good alternative as well.
As a note Lynda's code was :
$('.data-submit').data();
This woud return all data
$('.data-submit').data('action');
Is more specifc and faster, if you had other data elements it would just fetch all or fall over.

Worst Forum Registration Process Ever

I just survived the worst forum registration process ever, my ID has to be 9 characters long, for real? Talk about discouraging participation, mission accomplished, on that note, hi there, glad to be here behind the Iron Curtain sorta speak.

I just survived the worst forum registration process ever, my ID has to be 9 characters long, for real?
There are a number of well-designed forums (aside from Cisco) that requires a minimum of 9 characthers. Some will only accept emails.

Help with secure zone/ forum registration

Im having difficulty grasping the secure zone concept and ive spent days watching videos and reading online so I hope someone can help push me forward.
I built the site with Muse, and im using dreamweaver and the BC site (older view) to help edit. I have a creative cloud subscription.
First I want to create a registration page to collect custom information on users, for example: The site is about traveling, so I want users to be able to select which countries they have visited, upload a photo, and control their own profile.
I want this user information to control the forums, their own blog, and their own photo galleries.
I'm not afarid of doing the work it till take to get this done but I dont understand if I need to use webforms, or web app. The forums module has a default registration page that is very basic, can I use that for a template and just expand it?
Also I attempted to make webforms and use them, however when I publish my site live again in muse, it seems to delete any forms I made in BC, do I need finish using muse and stay away from it now that the basics are complete?
Thanks for your help, and any leads or overall concepts that I am missing would be great! Thanks!

You can not do that in BC exactly. It is not designed for that sort of site.
You can not use the CRM to build that sort of thing.
You will need to build a blog with webb apps and allow them to submit their own and edit their own web app items. For the forums you have a login for the forums but you can not have their own indevidual forum.
Photo gallery - not using the BC module and will again have to be a web app and limited.
To pull that into a public profile you again can not use the CRM as showing their CRM information is ONLY when THEY are logged in. You would have to replicate their data in another web app. And pulling them together will be hard unless you know ajax etc and still complicated.
You probably better off using a different platform to achieve what your after. Coming from Muse and what that outputs as well your going to have a hard time of it. You can not use Muse to publish if you want more stuff like this because it will just do an all in one publish. If you do stick with BC you have to now Ditch Muse if you watn to do any of this right and more.

Forum registration question does not work if DST is enabled

The forum software didn't accept my output of
date -u +%V$(uname)|sha256sum|sed 's/\W//g'
until I deselected "Daylight Savings Time is in effect (advance time by 1 hour).".
I guess this is a bug, right? Or is it a way to keep users off this forum who don't find that out by themselves (which also means this thread will be deleted)?

"Daylight Savings Time is in effect (advance time by 1 hour)" on https://bbs.archlinux.org/register.php.
I don't have timedatectl on my OS, but it shouldn't have to do anything with my OS, since the sha256sum of "30Linux" didn't work with DST on the registration page enabled, but worked as soon as I deselected that checkbox.

Forum Registration - Webmaster

Webmaster FYI - When signing up and registering for this forum a few minutes ago, I thought the Webmaster should know that the choice of 'creating your own own question' does not work. Someone should check on this for future users and correct this. I would have liked to create my own as my son and I will both use this forum from time to time and he may not know the answer I used.
Anyway ... just FYI.
Rick

Busata wrote:We could also include a pacman flash game that new users have to complete before finalizing registration.
───────
G ....
──┐P┌──
│ │
Pacman should move ......(left/right)
>

Toshiba forum registration issues

Had quite a few problems when I tried to register for Toshiba forums:
1) Which forum - forums.toshiba.com seems to be completely separate registration from forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com - you can't use ID from toshiba.com on toshiba-europe.com?
2) Went through complete registration at toshiba-europe.com then it wouldn't let me login.
So I tried the "forgotten password" option and it say's my ID is not recognised.
Then I tried re-registering and it says the ID is already taken
It can't be both not recognised and already taken - surely??
Simon

You are right about forums.
This forum is European Toshiba Forum and other one is US Toshiba forum. You cannot login with the same account. US forum is separate forum and there you can discuss with people about models offered on US or Canadian market.
I dont know what is wrong with login and cannot help you with it but if a registration is completed login should not be problematic. In worst case simply create new account.

Forum registration is broken

Hi,
I just could register at this forums but it was really hard because the security question one has to answer can not be answered right by just entering
date -u +%V$(uname)|sha256sum|sed 's/\W//g'
in a terminal. After a lot of attempts I found out that there has to be something wrong with the serverside execution of the sed part. I could only register successfully by omitting the sed part. So instead of entering just the hash value as the answer, one has to enter the complete output of
date -u +%V$(uname)|sha256sum
That means
# doesn't work
b767e3bd870dbdf1a06d1a90e059f490ad024936c5424cd01ada2df947d4783b
# works
b767e3bd870dbdf1a06d1a90e059f490ad024936c5424cd01ada2df947d4783b -

sed is only guaranteed to support POSIX BRE, and I cannot see \W defined there. \W is part of pcre.
There are some alternative commands we could use:
cut -d" " -f1
sed "s/[^[:alnum:]]//g"
sed "s/[^[:xdigit:]]//g"
Last edited by progandy (2014-03-10 02:28:37)

Registration Captcha

Hey guys,
just wanted to discuss the utility of the catcha question: "date -u +%j$(uname)|sha256sum|sed 's/\W//g."
You seriously nearly reduced my to tears. I had a kernel panic, several pacman problems and after several hours of trying to fix the problems myself was sitting utterly distressed in front of a windows pc (yes, windows!) and you ask for a command line answer?
I randomly called my fellow IT-friends to run the command for me (which of course didn't pick up) and started to search for emulators. Finally, I made an arch live usb stick where had to copy the resulting sha string character by character to the windows machine. In case you havn't noticed: it's quite long.
I guess my point is: Is this really necessary?! What about all the newbies wanting to ask some questions about their failing installation process or people with serious problems, confined to a windows machine?!
It should NOT be so difficult to register for a forum!
Last edited by Lina (2012-10-06 11:55:32)

Lina wrote:It should NOT be so difficult to register for a forum!
You are right, it shouldn't be.
It also shouldn't be so difficult to google before posting and find the following (or any of a dozen more just like them):
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 1#p1101981
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 5#p1162785
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=104892&p=1
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=97222

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Recently I have been asked to sign in again when visiting these forums.
The thingummy asks me to enter my e-mail address and password (neither of which have changed at my end). If I follow that Forums is Migrating rigmarole I get repeated error messages that Adobe ID and password don't match. Can anyone tell me what's going on? And what ("perzackly") is an Adobe ID? When I go to "Forgot your ID?" I get a row of 7 letters and digits but entering that as either an ID or a password doesn't help.
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As you may have already heard, there are changes coming soon to the Adobe User to User Forums. In response to community feedback, we are incorporating many user-requested features into Adobe Forums and also making changes to the underlying technology to improve the overall user experience.
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Once the existing forums have been converted to the new system, you will no longer be able to migrate your old User to User Forums account. Even though this process is optional, we encourage you to migrate your account so that your authoring history and message count will be accurate.
To complete this short migration process, please log into your account using your current User to User Forums account and password. During this process, you will be asked to create a new Adobe ID or sign in with an Adobe ID if you already have one. This Adobe ID will be used to sign in once the new Adobe Forums are live in April 2009.
We are also inviting all of our users to preview the new Adobe Forums. Please note that this is a preview area only and any new content posted there will be deleted when the new system comes online in April.
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Express Forum Registration

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When you choose your "desired alias" if you enter a name that is already taken it doesn't tell you or give you an error message, it just takes you back once you press submit and the field is empty.
Problem found on OS X 10.4.11 using Firefox 3.0.1

jcuthbert,
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The forum registration question is one of the weirder ones I have ever seen. It is also specific to one platform. (Does it accept GNU/Linux, for example?)
I did ran into a technical problem with the form itself. After having completed the riddle, I pasted the result and then pressed Enter. My answer was rejected. I went back and forth a few times before I found the problem: I had to click the Register button instead of pressing the Enter key to submit the form.
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Error message claiming the answer was incorrect,
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Profit.
Last edited by Aeyoun (2013-11-12 23:47:43)

Possible bug with the registration verification code, some follow up

About this post I made earily,
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=187286
> I ran into this problem several times before.
I mean that I finally made a successful registration after dozens of trying
in the last two or three years time span.
I just don't know what went wrong, and never get around to search for the solution.
Luckily I figure it out today.
And I rushed in to report it, hoping it will be fixed,
And no more people will be put off by this again.
After some search, I see I am not alone:
"" List of titles:
Can not register in bbs.archlinux.org
Registration question
Arch Forum User Registration is Broken
[solved] Forum registration bug
Arch forum registration question
Forum account registration form problem
Problem Registering for Forum -> date -u +%W$(uname)
Forum registrations from Hawaii
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It seams that Time Zone and DST are causing a bigger problem than it should be.
May be a not time-related Registration Captcha will server us better.

Scimmia wrote:If you have your timezones set up correctly, this shouldn't be an issue at all.
I don't know if it has been fixed, but when I tried to register 2 years ago, it continuously failed, even though I was quite sure I had entered everything correctly. On a whim, I decided to check the box that said daylight savings time is in effect. When I did that, my registration went through. So while "shouldn't be an issue" is technically true, it was an issue for me. I had to provide incorrect information in order to successfully register, and I only managed to do so by grasping at straws.
For the record, daylight savings time is never in effect in Hawaii.

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([email protected])
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