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#20742 Login bug?

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Latest post by Ch3vr0n on Monday, 18 August 2014 09:17 CDT

Monday, 18 August 2014 01:41 CDT

Ch3vr0n
So about an hour ago i was notified of a "login failure" on the site. Now here's the issue

Login went through on the front end anyway (it was me logging in btw) yet the warning was still sent out, and to top it off i had whitelisted my ISP ip in the WAF. No clue how that can happen but it is not the first time i see it happening.

Monday, 18 August 2014 01:54 CDT

nicholas
No, that's how Joomla! works. Long story cut short, sometimes when your session expires and the "Remember me" feature fails to log you in for any reason you get a failed login notification. No, we can't fix it, it's how Joomla! works. Well, if people continue to ask us four times a week about this like they do the last 3 months I am going to remove the "treat failed login as security exception" feature from Admin Tools.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
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Monday, 18 August 2014 02:05 CDT

Ch3vr0n
could find any immediate answers in search so figured I'd ask. No please don't remove it, or did actually notify me correctly of valid failed logins from random people. So i do appreciate that feature being there! Don't get me wrong. If that's how joomla works, then so be it o can live with it now that I know what the underlying reason of the exception is. Consider the matter closed and understood on my behalf :-)

Please leave that feature in there, how else would we know if actual unauthorized ppl tried to login ;-)

Monday, 18 August 2014 02:22 CDT

nicholas
OK :)

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

Monday, 18 August 2014 08:27 CDT

Ch3vr0n
I final question on the subject then i'll consider it completely solved.

Is there a way of handling this through session clearing? Or is that not possible either due to the way that akeeba cant track sessions unless handled via database?

Monday, 18 August 2014 09:04 CDT

nicholas
It's not a limitation in our software. It's the way Joomla! sessions work.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

Monday, 18 August 2014 09:17 CDT

Ch3vr0n
Thanks for the response, case completely closed then :)

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