>On 4 April 2012 18:19, K. Peachey <[email protected]> wrote: >>On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 5:54 PM, Petr Bena <[email protected]> wrote: >> More: >> >> IP addresses which do N bad login attemps should be blocked from >> accessing login page for Z minutes (You have done too many bad login >> attempts, please wait 5 minutes before trying again) >> This would help to avoid bots who try to compromise account by trying >> random passwords > >We already do this, I believe.
I believe it's covered through this: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgPasswordAttemptThrottle _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
