I like the “Too many different sign-in attempts” feature. However, when setting up my blog, I was adding about 14 members to my “invite-only” blog. So I would add them, then open an incognito browser, then click “sign in” and submit each email address. This way, those new members simply receive a login email–one click and they are in.
This “too many…” feature blocked me. Here’s what I did. I simply used the mysql cmdline to directly connect to my blog’s database:
mysql -u root -p
Then entered my mysql password
Then selected my ghost database as the current db
connect [your db name];
Then I took a look at the brute table:
select * from brute;
I noticed the count column. I didn’t know which row represented my network connection, so I simply updated all to 1:
update brute set count = 1;
I figure this is safe enough. None of the counts were over 9, and worst case is a bad actor gets a few more attempts before the block threshold triggers.
This allowed me to finish all my new member invites.