Manual:$wgPasswordAttemptThrottle
| User rights, access control and monitoring: $wgPasswordAttemptThrottle | |
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| Limit password attempts per IP per address. |
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| Introduced in version: | 1.14.0 (r38886)(git #6fcfa981) |
| Removed in version: | Still in use |
| Allowed values: | (array) |
| Default value: | see below |
| Other settings: Alphabetical | By function | |
Details
Limit password attempts to count attempts per seconds per IP per username.
$wgMainCacheType must be set to something other than CACHE_NONE for this setting to work.
When the throttle is hit, the AuthenticationAttemptThrottled hook gets called.
To disable, put the following in LocalSettings.php:
$wgPasswordAttemptThrottle = [];
| MediaWiki version: | ≥ 1.27 |
Multiple thresholds can be added. They will all be tested separately.
Default value
| MediaWiki version: | ≥ 1.27 |
$wgPasswordAttemptThrottle = [
// Short term limit.
[ 'count' => 5, 'seconds' => 300 ],
// Long term limit.
// We need to balance the risk of somebody using this as a DoS attack to lock someone out of their account, and someone doing a brute force attack.
[ 'count' => 150, 'seconds' => 60 * 60 * 48 ],
];
| MediaWiki versions: | 1.14 – 1.26 |
/**
* Limit password attempts to X attempts per Y seconds per IP per account.
*
* @warning Requires memcached.
*/
$wgPasswordAttemptThrottle = array( 'count' => 5, 'seconds' => 300 );