What do you like LEAST about current Symbiostock?

[ChristineParticipant]

Having had wordfence send five emails to me this morning reporting blocking someone after ten attempts each of logging in with my username.

Is it possible to set it up so that our admin names are never visible as that gives hackers a 50 percent head start?

Edit: Make that ten emails, ❗ am now on computer rather than tablet so can deal with it, 100 times trying to log in

http://kerioakimaging.com - trying to reopen
http://nail-art-at.kerioak.com - Art and Nail Art

[LeoParticipant]

@christine wrote:

Having had wordfence send five emails to me this morning reporting blocking someone after ten attempts each of logging in with my username.

Is it possible to set it up so that our admin names are never visible as that gives hackers a 50 percent head start?

Hrm…

We could consider that! I was thinking of making the artst/uploader account different than admin anyway, with it’s own name / role / capabilities.

[JoRodriguesParticipant]

This is a great idea! Anyone uses the username and boom! An auto-ban for 24 hours! I like it! Make it so, my good man! 😀

Jo

[ChristineParticipant]

@jorodrigues wrote:

This is a great idea! Anyone uses the username and boom! An auto-ban for 24 hours! I like it! Make it so, my good man! 😀

Jo

Might be a slight problem with this Jo – I use my username to get in to my own site

http://kerioakimaging.com - trying to reopen
http://nail-art-at.kerioak.com - Art and Nail Art

[JoRodriguesParticipant]

Well, me too. What I understood is that your login to the backend was different to your visual name on the site, i.e. On the site is says I’m “JoRodrigues” as a user, but my login is actually “@#$%Jo!@#$%”. So the name shown on the posts etc. is your ‘public’ name, not your login name. An alias for your real login. When people try to login as your alias, they are looking for trouble and you can auto ban them for however long you desire.

There is a way to do this using an IP. If anyone tries to login from another IP other than yours, it is taken as an intruder. The challenge with the IP is that many uses are assigned a new IP every time the log on or the router/modem gets reset.

The one nitwit kept doing just that to try to get into my dot com so I banned the whole IP range. Unfortunately it blocks everyone else on that ISP provider. That reminds me that I must go unblock that IP range ….

Jo

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