How to pass admin lockout — solution inside

  • Alexey

    (@dvascheta)


    10 years ago

    Couldn’t find the reason why my admin account was locked. I was logged in as Admin in FireFox and needed to test comments to posts as not logged user, so opened IE also and commented, when met lockout by IP both for FF and IE.

    I waited for 7-10 minutes, lockout was cancelled, but few new actions caused new lockout.

    Not wanted to wait any longer and found a solution. May be it was already described here, I found none. Hope it will be useful for one…

    So if your admin account is blocked:

    1) Go to phpMyAdmin
    2) Find wp_itsec_lockouts table (click it)
    3) Press “SQL” in the upper menu bar and execute (Ok button) default statement to see all rows in the table
    4) Find all lines with your external IP (if you don’t know, find it out with http://ipaddress.com/ or smth like this) which are not expired
    5) Press “Edit” for each and change “lockout_active” from 1 to 0

    That’s all! Now your site must be available!

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-wp-security/

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