On Feb 3, 2010, at 9:38 PM, Thadeus Burgess wrote:

> -1 for admin username
> +1 for anti-brute-forcing. If incorrect password typed 3 times, ban
> the IP permanently until you log into ssh and edit a pickled file.

We had a longish thread on this general subject a while back. I could probably 
find it, but....

I recall that the other alternative that was discussed was a rate limiter for 
password attempts. Any reason why something like that couldn't apply to regular 
logins as well? I don't think you'd want to use IP banning for user logins.

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