Title: Login names
Last modified: August 9, 2020

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# Login names

 *  Resolved [rigpa1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rigpa1/)
 * (@rigpa1)
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/login-names/)
 * Lately I have been getting a lot of attacks that use User Name – which can be
   found all over the site, as a login attempt.
 * I think they are looking for Author names and are using variants of this and 
   right now they are ONLY on character away from guessing usernames on ALL of my
   sites which are under attack.
 * These usernames are the names of everyone who has legal access to my sites and
   there is no point in changing them because the author inf will change too and
   they will know.
 * It is scary they are only ONE SINGLE character away from guessing ALL usernames.
 * One way to minimize risk is to have an admin user that do NOT publish articles
   and a user with no admin permissions as an author, but it is not a great solution
   for authors who want their names on the articles.
 * If my login was only one word they would have guessed by now, but because it 
   is two words seperated by a space they havent quite guessed it yet. They find
   my author name somewhere which contains a ‘-‘ instead of a space. Thats dangerously
   close to NOT being locked out and dangerously close to be able to login!!!!
 * The bastards will ALWAYS be able to find author names and user names so they 
   have to be separated from Login names!!!
 * What can we do???
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Flogin-names%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Contributor [mbrsolution](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mbrsolution/)
 * (@mbrsolution)
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/login-names/#post-13228074)
 * Hi, can you share what settings you have activated in the plugin.
 * Thank you
 *  [Truthone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/truthone/)
 * (@truthone)
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/login-names/#post-13228837)
 * Hi –
 * I tried to reload the theme but it keeps failing. 🙁
 * I am new at this. Can you login and look for your self?
    If so tell me what you
   need from me.
 * The site has no content except what the demo came with.
 * Thanks,
    Armando
 *  Plugin Contributor [mbrsolution](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mbrsolution/)
 * (@mbrsolution)
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/login-names/#post-13229534)
 * [@truthone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/truthone/), please start a new
   support thread.
 * Thank you

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