Login Security Turned Off – Still Getting Locked Out

  • Resolved LaughterOnWater

    (@laughter-on-water)


    8 years, 6 months ago

    One site I’m working with was getting hammered by brute force attempts. Valid people couldn’t log in because there had been too many attempts by hackers on their accounts. Ever.
    So I turned off the Security Lock-out feature in BPS, relying on long random passwords.
    Thus:

    • Set: “Turn On|Turn Off: Turn Off Login Security”.
    • Click: “Save Options”.

    Except now it still says “Turn Off Login Security” in the pull down.
    As a toggle, shouldn’t it prompt you to do the opposite?
    Could this be better managed under a different UI?
    Or maybe one option could say “Login security ON” and the other, “Login Security OFF”.
    ???
    Because this is confusing. It looks like it’s telling me that it’s on and that I have the option of turning it off. Yet I just turned it off…

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  • Plugin Author AITpro

    (@aitpro)

    The drop down select form option reflects the current DB option value for that form option, which is Login Security is turned Off in this case, but you have good point since the wording makes it sound like an action is required. ie do X instead of X is already done. I have scheduled a task to look into changing the naming convention of that Login Security form option.

    For user accounts being repeatedly locked out see this forum topic for additional things you can do to prevent that: https://forum.ait-pro.com/forums/topic/user-account-locked/#post-12634

    Plugin Author AITpro

    (@aitpro)

    The Login Security Turn On|Turn Off: select form option names have been changed in BPS .53.6. Thank you for this very good idea. ??

    Turn On|Turn Off:
    Login Security On
    Login Security Off
    Login Security Off|Use Password Reset Option ONLY

    Plugin Author AITpro

    (@aitpro)

    Oh and all other BPS Turn On|Turn Off form option names have been changed to this new naming convention. We will be giving you Kudos in the BPS .53.6 Changelog for this excellent Idea.

    Changelog:
    Change: Form option naming convention changes from Turn On|Turn Off to X On|X Off for: Login Security, ISL, ACE, UI|UX, Inpage Status Display and DB Backup All Scheduled Backups form option names. Special thanks to: Laughter On Water for this excellent idea.

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