[GeoNode-devel] REGISTRATION_OPEN setting

[Jeffrey Johnson]

Good idea. In fact, a few security audits have been done in the past
by various stakeholders. I'm not sure the results are always able to
be shared. Usually specific bugs are just addressed quietly in my
experience.



On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 5:13 PM, Jonathan Doig <j.doig at unsw.edu.au> wrote:
> Geonode is an impressive development but just in my 6 months experience with it I have seen several serious security flaws.
>
> I wonder if a sponsor (World Bank?) would be interested in funding a security audit of Geonode to bring it up to scratch.
>
> Jonathan
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> Subject: [GeoNode-devel] REGISTRATION_OPEN setting
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>  Hi,
>
>  I wonder, why do we have REGISTRATION_OPEN setting (used in https:// github.com/GeoNode/geonode/blob/master/geonode/templates/account/
> signup.html#L15)? It seems it overlaps with ACCOUNT_OPEN_SIGNUP setting from account app: http://django-user-accounts.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
> settings.html#account-open-signup
>
>  What's more, this setting is used in templates only, so one can create new user simply by sending POST request with form contents.
>
>  I'd suggest use ACCOUNT_OPEN_SIGNUP instead, and set it to False in settings as a default.
>
>  Best Regards,
>
>  Cezary Statkiewicz
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