On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Wikimini webmaster@wikimini.org wrote:
Hi,
Sorry for the "urgent" label but I urgently need to unblock a user who cannot login anymore because of too many login attempts with wrong password.
IIRC the failed login counters are stored in the cache. If not already expired out, you could restart memcached (if using memcache) or clear out the objectcache table; or you could temporarily change the $wgPasswordAttemptThrottle settings.
Cache key for the login attempts includes the IP address and a hash of the username, if you're brave enough to clear an individual entry: $throttleKey = wfMemcKey( 'password-throttle', wfGetIP(), md5( $this->mName ) );
The default maximum is 5 hits in 5 minutes (300 seconds), so _should_ be long expired already if using defaults.
-- brion