On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 05:59:00PM +0100, Lorenzo Milesi wrote:
> > Yes, you're right, and plugins for Joomla exists which log failed login
> > attempts, and that would be the perfect solution.
> > Sadly this is a shared hosting and I cannot force everyone to install
> > packages...
> 
> apparently there's no other mean but having "collaboration" from joomla 
> itself with the aforementioned plugin.
> Joomla makes several POSTs to the administrator/index.php file even for 
> regular usage (or if there are several users from the same IP).
> 
> I used this technique for wordpress, but it has a separate script for login 
> so it's not applicable to Joomla.
> 

I've had the same problem with Joomla and don't have a solution.

I also have the same problem with WordPress, and do have a solution
for that.  I wrote a small plugin which syslogs failed login attempts.
We install it as a "must-use" plugin (so the user doesn't have to
deal with it or even know it is there).  Fail2ban watches the logs
for these failed logins and blocks hundreds of brute-force IPs every day.
If you have the same problem with WP, I'd be happy to give you the plugin.

Mark
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