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Comment by tinus_hn

3 years ago

Because you want to have delays between bot login attempts?

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joshspankit  3 years ago

I think that’s overcomplicating it: Just do it site-wide for all login attempts (always on, or like the captcha: as-needed)

  • tinus_hn  3 years ago

    So now in the case of a bot attack no one can login. That doesn’t work.

    • joshspankit  3 years ago

      What do you mean?

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