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

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Today's Topics:

About $wgPasswordAttemptThrottle ([[kgh]])
Re: About $wgPasswordAttemptThrottle (Martin Urbanec)
Re: About $wgPasswordAttemptThrottle ([[kgh]])

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
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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

Message: 2
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2019 16:15:59 +0200
From: Martin Urbanec martin.urbanec@wikimedia.cz
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Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] About $wgPasswordAttemptThrottle
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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.
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
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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:
...
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
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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