Re: [MediaWiki-l] MediaWiki-l Digest, Vol 191, Issue 3

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Today's Topics:

1. About $wgPasswordAttemptThrottle ([[kgh]])
2. Re: About $wgPasswordAttemptThrottle (Martin Urbanec)
3. Re: About $wgPasswordAttemptThrottle ([[kgh]])

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Message: 1 Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2019 15:36:05 +0200 From: "[[kgh]]" mediawiki@kghoffmeyer.de To: MediaWiki admin list mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [MediaWiki-l] About $wgPasswordAttemptThrottle Message-ID: b3a8ad7f-1168-86b5-e7a8-bd0d17eb3f13@kghoffmeyer.de Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

Hi at all,

whenever I try to re-request a password MediaWiki tells me that I have to wait another 24 hours until I can do this.

My understanding is that $wgPasswordAttemptThrottle [0] is there to help be control this behaviour. No matter what I set to this parameter, even "false" I am still being asked to wait for 24 hours.

I am using redis for caching. My theory is that you need memcached for this to work and if memcached is not present MediaWiki enforces a day, no matter what. Is this about right or is there something else at play?

Bonus question: Is there a another way to change this 24 hours period? Probably not but hope dies last. :)

Thanks for your time.

Cheers, Karsten

[0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgPasswordAttemptThrottle

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Message: 2 Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2019 16:15:59 +0200 From: Martin Urbanec martin.urbanec@wikimedia.cz To: mediawiki@kghoffmeyer.de, MediaWiki announcements and site admin list mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] About $wgPasswordAttemptThrottle Message-ID: <CAOCih8JqQYEec8yqM9TG4g8FEogzRR70Uo=q6gj=+ Ck4hUnqsA@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"

The variable says it controls "password attempts", which i understand as "login attempts". Try $wgPasswordReminderResendTime instead, https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgPasswordReminderResendTime.

Martin Urbanec

st 7. 8. 2019 v 15:37 odesílatel [[kgh]] mediawiki@kghoffmeyer.de napsal:

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Hi at all,

whenever I try to re-request a password MediaWiki tells me that I have to wait another 24 hours until I can do this.

My understanding is that $wgPasswordAttemptThrottle [0] is there to help be control this behaviour. No matter what I set to this parameter, even "false" I am still being asked to wait for 24 hours.

I am using redis for caching. My theory is that you need memcached for this to work and if memcached is not present MediaWiki enforces a day, no matter what. Is this about right or is there something else at play?

Bonus question: Is there a another way to change this 24 hours period? Probably not but hope dies last. :)

Thanks for your time.

Cheers, Karsten

[0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgPasswordAttemptThrottle

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Message: 3 Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2019 16:20:42 +0200 From: "[[kgh]]" mediawiki@kghoffmeyer.de To: Martin Urbanec martin.urbanec@wikimedia.cz, MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org

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Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] About $wgPasswordAttemptThrottle Message-ID: 0d40469d-3f40-520f-abef-623e538a0bea@kghoffmeyer.de Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

Hi Martin,

you are correct. This is the one. I was so focused on throtteling that I did not see the obvious.

Thanks a ton!

Cheers, Karsten

Am 07.08.19 um 16:15 schrieb Martin Urbanec:

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The variable says it controls "password attempts", which i understand as "login attempts". Try $wgPasswordReminderResendTime instead,

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgPasswordReminderResendTime.

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Martin Urbanec

st 7. 8. 2019 v 15:37 odesílatel [[kgh]] <mediawiki@kghoffmeyer.de mailto:mediawiki@kghoffmeyer.de> napsal:

Hi at all,

whenever I try to re-request a password MediaWiki tells me that I

have

...

to wait another 24 hours until I can do this.

My understanding is that $wgPasswordAttemptThrottle [0] is there
to help
be control this behaviour. No matter what I set to this parameter,
even
"false" I am still being asked to wait for 24 hours.

I am using redis for caching. My theory is that you need memcached

for

...

this to work and if memcached is not present MediaWiki enforces a

day,

...

no matter what. Is this about right or is there something else at
play?

Bonus question: Is there a another way to change this 24 hours

period?

...

Probably not but hope dies last. :)

Thanks for your time.

Cheers, Karsten

[0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgPasswordAttemptThrottle


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