CMFPlone memberdata hotfix

Warning

This product has not had a release in over 1 year and may no longer be maintained.

Portrait spam hotfix for Plone. Note: This is an unofficial patch, not supported by the Plone team. It is not useful unless you are running an older release of Plone and cannot upgrade. Plone 2.1.4 and 2.5.1 (or later) have these fixes included.

Project Description

The hotfix product is addressed to resolve the spam issue: http://plone.org/news/recent-web-site-slowness. Currently covered the spam in portraits case.

The hotfix is designed for  Plone 2.0.x., tested on Plone 2.0. 3-2.0.5, 2.1.1-2.1.3, 2.5.

The fix is back ported from Plone 2.1 branch.

Dependency: PIL

How to use product

1. Install product
   
2. Make sure the server is restarted
3. Click the Zope Management Interface link.
4. Locate the link portal_membership (not portal_memberdata).
5. Click the Portraits tab.
6. Click the Remove Bad Portraits button. This will search through the user portraits and look for content that is not an image, and remove it.
   
7. If there were any bad user portraits found, you will now get a list of the users that had their portrait removed, with an option to delete their user accounts. Only do this if you are sure that they are not legitimate users.
8. You have now removed the bad user portraits (and optionally the user accounts), and you are also protected against this happening in the future.