handy to include illegal names in the immediate list like admin

  • After renaming admin and reducing the count to 1, it’s great to see the reduction of IPs trying to get into the admin account.

    But I’m still seeing a lot of IPs trying ‘root’.

    What’s annoying is that ‘root’ is a name I have barred in the overall settings of wordpress anyway. It would be really handy if iThemes Security could import that list and apply it in the same manner that admin is applied

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  • Thread Starter madivad

    (@madivad)

    I’ve just realised that it’s not a banned username, but rather a banned site name.

    However, I’m getting over 100 hits for various IPs all trying each of my site installs under my multisite. I did notice the same IP requesting on a couple of them. If an IP is banned from one site, they should be banned from all.

    Thread Starter madivad

    (@madivad)

    Is this something that’s going to be looked at?

    ie,

    1) having a list of banned usernames that can get immediate rejection, and

    2) ban the IPs across all sites in a multisite

    Interested in what is coming? Have a feature request?

    Check out and contribute to the
    iThemes Security feature roadmap.

    dwinden

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