Thanks for the feedback, everyone! I will add the extension to contrib this evening when I am back home (unless someone who has not posted yet disagrees). Best Clemens
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 <[email protected]> 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to have a showcase for a different implementation, but for now it is a separate and already slightly outdated implementation.
I think I will upload the results to e.x.o anyway (with a big note that this is superseded since XWiki 11.6), but is there any interest of hosting this as an xwiki-contrib project, maybe with the name 'authenticator-blocking', package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