MediaWiki talk:Login-throttled

Doc is at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgPasswordAttemptThrottle

Gray
I made the login form gray when it gets too many (more than 5) failed login attempts. If we were to use this we would want to set a setTimeout (30 seconds) to return the form to white. Javascript for this, tip:

window.setTimeout(referenceToFunction,timeInMilliseconds);

window.setTimeout('runMoreCode',timeInMilliseconds);

More at http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/tutorials/javascript/timers

On
Login timeouts are annoying and frustrating for users already having trouble remembering yet another site's required username and password. This would turn it off:

$wgPasswordAttemptThrottle = false; //which would turn it off

But then captcha doesn't kick in here either, which is not good. So I'm leaving this at the default 'on' setting in LocalSettings.php. --Roger 22:13, 21 February 2012 (CST)

Choice
Our choice seems to be:

(a) trigger $wgPasswordAttemptThrottle AND badlogin captcha

(b) trigger $wgPasswordAttemptThrottle but NOT badlogin captcha

(c) neither

Triggering only badlogin captcha would be nice but I have not figure out how to get that. ACTUALLY all triggers for badlogin captcha are eluding me at the moment, although I had it triggering earlier today. Alas, complicated machine.