How to deal with spam posts on pagure

When an ticket is raised for a spam user on the Fedora infra tracker take the following actions.

Clear the spam

Click on the user in pagure and check their activity for all comments they have made. Remove all these comments unless otherwise advised.

Ban the user in pagure

ssh to pagure02.fedoraproject.org. As root user run the following command:

pagure-admin block-user <username> <date to block until>

For example:

pagure-admin block-user spamuser 2060-01-01

Disable user in IPA

Frontend

  1. Login to the [ipa server](https://id.fedoraproject.org/ipa/ui) and search the users name.

  2. Click on the user.

  3. In the Actions dropdown menu click disable

Command line

  1. ssh to ipa01.iad2.fedoraproject.org

  2. run ipa user-disable <user>

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