On 30/11/2007, Christensen, Courtney ChristensenC@battelle.org wrote:
Hi List,
I've searched Google, mediawiki.org, the mailing list archives, and looked through the listed extensions, but I have been unable to find anything about keeping mediawiki accounts from being brute-forced. I'm specifically looking for something that locks an account down after a specified number of login attempts or which adds time between login requests when the password is given incorrectly. Do measures like this exist? Did I just use the wrong search terms?
After a quick look at the relevant code, I can't see any such feature. It looks like MediaWiki will accept unlimited numbers of attempts. You can use an external authentication plugin which could have such a feature. Whether such a plugin already exists, I don't know - mediawiki.org would be the place to look.