Too many login attempts

[MereCivilian]

Please note: I am really new at this and therefore my technical knowledge isn’t great. It is modest at best.

Details:

• Web: merecivilian.com
• Ghost v3.22.1
• Installed on DigitalOcean using 1 click marketplace
• Cloudflare also being used - bypassing merecivilian.com/ghost*
• using mysql database
• I have access to the console on DigitalOcean

The Problem
when logging in on Ghost Admin, I get error: “Too many login attempts”

Steps taken

• I have done the obviously thing and not log in for some time. I wait 6 hours and than 12 hours and still the error doesn’t go away. Rest assured, the password I am using is correct. I have not reset the password.
• I have the Ghost app installed on my Mac and that still works. I suppose it’s already logged in.
• iA Writer is where I write and the app is able to publish on my website, so that also works

The issue is only using through the browser. I have tried on different computers and different browsers. I also tried on another app Ulysses which also uses the login method and that doesn’t work.

I kindly request your assistance.

[MereCivilian]

I found a solution that worked for me.

I wrote about it here:

Ghost Blog: Too many login attempts

[Olesia]

You can fix it in config files - config.development.json or defaults.json
Change the minWait & maxWait & freeRetries

"spam": {
    "user_login": {
        "minWait": 600000,
        "maxWait": 604800000,
        "freeRetries": 4
    },
}

[r002]

Thank you, @Olesia!! This config worked for me! (My local install password mysteriously stopped working this morning so I needed to set up local mail and also change this "login retry" setting…)

Note though: I had to delete the trailing comma (I’m on Ghost 5.52, Windlows WSL2 local install) or else Ghost wouldn’t start:

"spam": {
    "user_login": {
        "minWait": 600000,
        "maxWait": 604800000,
        "freeRetries": 4
    } , <--------------- Needed to kill this trailing comma
}

to fix this error: