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To help prevent spammers, JIRA comes with the CAPTCHA challenge-response feature to
make sure there is a real person signing up for a new account and not an automated bot. To
enable the CAPTCHA feature, proceed with the following steps:
1. Navigate to
Administration
|
System
|
General Configuration
.
2. Click on the
Edit Settings
button.
3. Set the
CAPTCHA on signup
option to
On
and click on
Update
.
Once you have enabled CAPTCHA, the
Sign up
form will include a string of randomly
generated alphanumeric characters that must be typed in correctly for a new account to be
generated, as shown in the following screenshot:
