Prevent registration of accounts under protected names
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 42/100
- Issue type
- Feature
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- authentication, backend
Research direction
Start by tracing the account and group creation paths in the Python library and identify where names are validated or manual review is enforced. Define the protected-name behavior, including how the existing security account is handled, and add or update tests showing that reserved names cannot be registered while permitted accounts still work.
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Description
Certain account names like "security", "info", "admins", etc. shouldn't be registrable to avoid confusion. (That said, security has already been registered, by me as a sysadmin, to facilitate creation of the security-discuss mailing list. But sysadmins ought to be trusted not to misuse the name for other things, like posing security@ as a security contact address for the SRCF...)
Given that group account creation is subject to manual review, there is already a layer of prevention that should stop such names being taken. It would be better if the set of "reserved" account names is programmatically enforced by our systems, though.
- Dominant language
- Python
- Stars
- 0
- Forks
- 5
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
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