block admin user name?

  • maddogmcewan

    (@maddogmcewan)


    10 years, 10 months ago

    [Topic modified “URGENT REQUEST” is useless and all caps is considered yelling and is rude]

    Wordfence has saved our bacon a few times in last few weeks – best there is – need urgent way to set up a rule

    Last few hours have been hit every second by attempted admin username logins – need a way to block automatically any attempt to login as admin username

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordfence/

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  • david

    (@dskirk)

    10 years, 10 months ago

    There is an option in WordPress to do that. My guess is the hacker is then changing IP addresses. My solution to the problem was to create a list of blocked ID addressses in the .htaccess file.

    RobinInTexas

    (@robinintexas)

    10 years, 10 months ago

    In the Wordfence options

    Login Security Options
    Immediately lock out invalid usernames


    is already there. If you don’t have an admin user there’s no feature needed.

    sgpark

    (@sgpark)

    10 years ago

    Login Security Options
    Immediately lock out invalid usernames

    The problem with this is that you will lock out clumsy typists with valid user accounts. It’s not a solution. A solution would be the ability to lock out people who try certain login usernames, such as “admin” or “administration”, or the logins of previously banned users, etc.

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