https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17487


Mike.lifeguard <[email protected]> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
          Component|Site requests               |General/Unknown
            Product|Wikimedia                   |MediaWiki
            Summary|Change rate limit for       |Allow a rate limit for
                   |mailpassword for IPs        |mailpassword on the user for
                   |                            |which the request is being
                   |                            |made




--- Comment #16 from Mike.lifeguard <[email protected]>  2009-02-18 
22:12:47 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #15)
> I believe the rate is intentionally as 'high' as it is because there were
> legitimate uses of the password reset feature being hit so many times per IP 
> in
> an hour (e.g., shared IPs).
> 
> I think the correct answer here is to complement the current system with a
> number of hits per requestee per day, a limit which could be pretty low and 
> not
> harm anything, in my opinion.
> 

Ahh, of course. I'll revert my changes to the summary etc then. The limit
should indeed be on the user for which the password is being requested, not on
the IP. I suppose I conflated the two.


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