Mailing List Archive: About $wgPasswordAttemptThrottle

About $wgPasswordAttemptThrottle

Aug 7, 2019, 6:36 AM

Post #1 of 3 (264 views)

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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Re: About $wgPasswordAttemptThrottle [ In reply to ]

martin.urbanec at wikimedia

Aug 7, 2019, 7:15 AM

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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:

> 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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Re: About $wgPasswordAttemptThrottle [ In reply to ]

mediawiki at kghoffmeyer

Aug 7, 2019, 7:20 AM

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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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