Difference between revisions of "Basic Submission Rules"
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= How to Create an Account = | = How to Create an Account = | ||
During the account creation process, some contributors have had issues providing the correct response to a | During the account creation process, some contributors have had issues providing the correct response to a question such as: | ||
What is the output of " date -u +%WLinux|sha256sum|sed 's/\W//g' " ?''' | What is the output of " date -u +%WLinux|sha256sum|sed 's/\W//g' " ?''' | ||
The command provided must of course | The command provided must of course be placed into a Linux terminal in order to get the answer. Furthermore, it is worthwhile noting that the command itself must be entered <u>without the speech marks</u>, as otherwise the terminal will simply respond with an error message. So, for the above example, the following would be placed into the terminal in order to provide the correct response: | ||
date -u +%WLinux|sha256sum|sed 's/\W//g' | date -u +%WLinux|sha256sum|sed 's/\W//g' | ||
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Although it is certainly appreciated that this checking process can be a bit of a nuisance, it is unfortunately necessary in order to prevent an avalanche of spam attacks on the wiki. | Although it is certainly appreciated that this checking process can be a bit of a nuisance, it is unfortunately necessary in order to prevent an avalanche of spam attacks on the wiki. | ||
=Do= | =Do= | ||