Restricting JIRA public signup due to spam

Question

I seems our JIRA has been targeted for SPAM due to its "public" mode...

The https://jira.netic.dk/secure/Signup!default.jspaurl is redirected before the request getting to jira and I can see that no mail is comming in.

Anyway, the attacker creates several accounts a day, costing us 1 license each (unless I de-activate) the user. Going into private mode is not really an option.

Is there a way to disable/secure public signup and let it be allowed by mail only?

Ceki Gulcu · Answer

We host our own Jira server and are having a similar problem with about 100'000 users who are bogus (very long user names, images, etc).  However, these users never log on. What could be the point of creating such users?

B_ Normann P_ Nielsen · Answer

Thanks, the Capcha is on, but is seems that they are just entering the damn capcha manually (which I btw also see on my personal Confluence :-( )

Andre Lehmann · Answer

Hi Norman,

I thnk there is an option to add a CAPTCHA during registration.

Have a look at the configuration: URL/secure/admin/ViewApplicationProperties.jspa

Maybe that could help.

Kind regards
André