* Add an account-creation password as a simple anti-spam mechanism. If

set in the wiki setup, passwordauth will require the password in
  order to create an account.

IkiWiki.pm

@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ sub defaultconfig () { #{{{
 	userdir => "",
 	usedirs => 1,
 	numbacklinks => 10,
+	account_creation_password => "",
 } #}}}
    
 sub checkconfig () { #{{{

IkiWiki/Plugin/passwordauth.pm

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ sub formbuilder_setup (@) { #{{{
 		
 		if ($form->submitted eq "Register" || $form->submitted eq "Create Account") {
 			$form->field(name => "confirm_password", type => "password");
+			$form->field(name => "account_creation_password", type => "password") if (length $config{account_creation_password});
 			$form->field(name => "email", size => 50);
 			$form->title("register");
 			$form->text("");
@@ -51,6 +52,13 @@ sub formbuilder_setup (@) { #{{{
 						shift eq $form->field("password");
 					},
 				);
+				$form->field(
+					name => "account_creation_password",
+					validate => sub {
+						shift eq $config{account_creation_password};
+					},
+					required => 1,
+				) if (length $config{account_creation_password});
 				$form->field(
 					name => "email",
 					validate => "EMAIL",

debian/changelog

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 ikiwiki (2.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
 
+  [ Joey Hess ]
   * Use div layout for the signin and preferences forms, so that they can be
     styled using the stylesheet, rather than by creating signin and prefs
     templates.
@@ -14,7 +15,12 @@ ikiwiki (2.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * Add the needsbuild hook. Plugins can use this to manipulate which files
     ikiwiki builds when refreshing the wiki.
 
- -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 08 May 2007 20:44:27 -0400
+  [ Josh Triplett ]
+  * Add an account-creation password as a simple anti-spam mechanism. If
+    set in the wiki setup, passwordauth will require the password in
+    order to create an account.
+
+ -- Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>  Tue, 08 May 2007 19:05:21 -0700
 
 ikiwiki (2.00) unstable; urgency=low
 

doc/ikiwiki.setup

@@ -99,6 +99,8 @@ use IkiWiki::Setup::Standard {
 	#userdir => "users",
 	# To create output files named page.html rather than page/index.html.
 	#usedirs => 0,
+	# Simple spam prevention: require an account-creation password.
+	#account_creation_password => "example",
 
 	# To add plugins, list them here.
 	#add_plugins => [qw{goodstuff search wikitext camelcase