Since you did it already and it might be needed by many people who
don't plan to upgrade soon +1 to publish it.

On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 7:44 AM Clemens Klein-Robbenhaar
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi devs.
>
>   I noticed that the recent 11.6.x series have introduced a way to deal
> with attempts to guess a users password by introducing a strategy to
> handle repeated login failures. I should have payed attention before
> this was published because I have been implementing something similar
> because of several user requests.
>
>   Anyway, my alternative solution has been finished in parallel, and I
> wonder if there is any interest of hosting this as a contrib project.
>
> The implementation differs in the following details:
>
>   - it does not use the new AuthenticationFailureEvents and the
> introduced component API, instead it implements its own XWikiAuthService
>   - this means it works for 10.x, too (which my users are mostly running)
>   - otoh it does not work with e.g. the LDAPAuthenticator
>   - it also allows to block IPs (not that I care much about, but some
> people want this)
>   - it unblocks the user after a given time frame without having an
> Admin to intervene
>
> I guess I can migrate at least most of it into the new
> AuthenticationFailureStrategy to have a showcase for a different
> implementation,

Could be interesting too yes.

> but for now it is a separate and already slightly
> outdated implementation.
>
> I think I will upload the results to e.x.o anyway (with a big note that
> this is superseded since XWiki 11.6), but is there any interest of
> hosting this as an xwiki-contrib project, maybe with the name
> 'authenticator-blocking', package 'org.xwiki.contrib.blockingauth' and
> maybe even a Jira project like 'BLOCKINGAUTH' ?
>
> Best,
> Clemens
>


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