How to turn off too many login attempts

[Mdcyntst]

Can’t troubleshoot when I have to keep waiting forever.

I tried adding,

“middleware”: {
“brute”: {
“enabled”: false,
“freeRetries”: 50,
“minWait”: 1000,
“maxWait”: 5000,
“lifetime”: 3600
}
},

[markstos]

I searched the forum for this question and found this answer:

How can I disable "Too many different sign-in attempts" when users try to subscribe?

@vikaspotluri123 I now that it is supposed but there’s a flaw in the documentation. The configuration for how to configure spamming links to an old version of the config file: That version doesn’t contain the member_login key, so that part appears to not be configurable. I’m not sure how to submit a pull request against the documentation, but the issue could be resolved by linking to the same section on the main branch instead:

Look at the default config file linked there to find out how to structure your config file.

I also recommend re-enabling to prevent a brute-force takeover of your blog.

[Troy_Wolf]

Perhaps helpful to anyone having the issue I faced around this feature.

How can I disable "Too many different sign-in attempts" when users try to subscribe?

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…