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#30158 blocking by username

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Latest post by on Wednesday, 03 October 2018 17:17 CDT

Saturday, 01 September 2018 14:39 CDT

rmari

I would like to automatically block an IP if they are attempting to login under a specific username. Our site was hacked once, then I changed the admin username and I still see attempts to log in under that old name. It would be really nice to automatically block and IP that attempts to sign in as that ID, since I know they have information that they shouldn't have.

I don't see a way of doing that with your software, unless I am missing it...

Edited by rmari on 2018-09-01 14:39 CDT

Monday, 03 September 2018 02:42 CDT

nicholas

No, there is no way to do exactly that.

If the username is unique enough to definitely not be part of any other request sent to the site by anyone else, ever, there is a way to do that. Use the Anti-spam Bad Words feature. Create a new entry with the username in the place of the bad word.

If the username is not a unique word for the previous suggestion to work you can always use the "Treat failed logins as security exceptions" feature to trigger a security exception every time someone fails to log in. If they try to log in several times with the now defunct username they will get automatically blocked per the "IP blocking of repeat offenders" settings.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

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Wednesday, 03 October 2018 17:17 CDT

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