Trying to purge them and set up with Lemmy Ansible, I’ve disabled signups without admin approval for now.

I see a postgres container and a password but I’m not very familiar with postgres, I tried psql but can’t get access

Edit: Also anyone who’s de-federated with us, please reconsider. We’re a small server with active admin and will get a handle on this, I promise! We had an easy process to sign up for a few days while I got my users over and forgot to turn it off

Edit2: Looking much more healthy now, I will put the commands I’ve used in a comment below

  • code@lemmy.mayes.ioEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    Turn on captchas too.

    I think the easiest is login to the docker and run the postgres client to run sql to delete users. I dont know how to differentiate between your bot and normal

    • coffeeisnotlatte@latte.isnot.coffeeOPEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Yeah that’s the issue I’m having, someone sent me a postgres command in DM earlier but it does seem to be a bit of a nuke/picking up ordinary users…

      • Bilb!@lem.monsterEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I wound up adding adminer to the docker-compose file temporarily to help me look through the data. In my case, there were no legitimate users who hadn’t verified their email, so I deleted all from local_users where the email verified column was false.

          • Bilb!@lem.monsterEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Yeah, I really just did a very basic setup:

            adminer: image: adminer restart: always ports: - 8080:8080

            When entering the database host, just enter “postgres” since that’s the host name it will have in the virtual network.

  • Wander@yiffit.netEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    Hey there! Thank you for reaching out. I’ll definitely not block your instance then. Regarding postgres, first login to the postgres container with docker exec -it containername busybox /bin/sh

    You can get the container name by running docker ps. Once inside login to psql console with psql -U lemmy

    I’ve written this from memory, but it should be very similar if not the same.

    EDIT: Consider saving the usernames and details of the bots that signed up. We might be able to use that for some analysis.

  • preciouspupp@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    docker exec -it postgres sh export PGPASSWORD=$POSTGRES_PASSWORD psql -u $POSTGRES_USER

    Something like this by heart.

    PM me tomorrow if you are stuck (I’m in Europe).

  • pe1uca@lemmy.pe1uca.devEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    The command to connect to the DB is psql -U <user> <DB_name>.
    Usually you also have to use the -p flag but I’ve been connecting directly to the container without it. Not sure if it’s because the container already has the password in a environment variable