Automatic IP Blocking – Admin

  • freshandfly

    (@freshandfly)


    11 years, 2 months ago

    On the free version it allowed me to select something along the lines of “if a visitor tries to login as Admin more than X amount of times” – blacklist them and set the rules for this.

    But I can’t find the option on the Pro version – does it simply blacklist all bad logins after a specified number of attempts?

    How do I configure this, in particular visitors trying to login with Admin?

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

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  • Thread Starter freshandfly

    (@freshandfly)

    11 years, 2 months ago

    I guess what I mean is – what actually constitutes a bad login – does the Free version only count someone logging in as “Admin”, but pro counts any incorrect login?

    dwinden

    (@dwinden)

    11 years, 2 months ago

    No, I think you are searching in the wrong direction.

    I think the functionality you are referring to in the free iTSec plugin is the following “Brute Force Protection” checkbox on the Settings page:

    Automatically ban “admin” user [ ] Immediately ban a host that attempts to login using the “admin” username.

    This checkbox will only be displayed when you tick the “Enable local brute force protection” checkbox.

    Not sure (since I’m not using iTSec Pro) but I expect this option is also available in the iTSec Pro plugin.

    dwinden

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