Re: [xwiki-devs] [contrib] any interest in another authenticator that deals with failed logins

Hi Clemens, Cool. +1 to publish it on contrib + exo (either xwiki-contrib or xwiki-attric if you don’t plan to maintain it). Thanks -Vincent > On 17 Aug 2019, at 21:40, Clemens Klein-Robbenhaar > <robbenhaar(a)green-meadows.de> wrote: > > Hi devs. > > I noticed that the recent 11.6.x series have introduced a way to deal > with attempts to guess a users password by introducing a strategy to > handle repeated login failures. I should have payed attention before > this was published because I have been implementing something similar > because of several user requests. > > Anyway, my alternative solution has been finished in parallel, and I > wonder if there is any interest of hosting this as a contrib project. > > The implementation differs in the following details: > > - it does not use the new AuthenticationFailureEvents and the > introduced component API, instead it implements its own > XWikiAuthService > - this means it works for 10.x, too (which my users are mostly > running) > - otoh it does not work with e.g. the LDAPAuthenticator > - it also allows to block IPs (not that I care much about, but some > people want this) > - it unblocks the user after a given time frame without having an > Admin to intervene > > I guess I can migrate at least most of it into the new > AuthenticationFailureStrategy to have a showcase for a different > implementation, but for now it is a separate and already slightly > outdated implementation. > > I think I will upload the results to e.x.o anyway (with a big note > that this is superseded since XWiki 11.6), but is there any interest > of hosting this as an xwiki-contrib project, maybe with the name > 'authenticator-blocking', package 'org.xwiki.contrib.blockingauth' and > maybe even a Jira project like 'BLOCKINGAUTH' ? > > Best, > Clemens >