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mod_http_oauth2: Reject non-local hosts in more code paths
We're not issuing tokens for users on remote hosts, we can't even
authenticate them since they're remote. Thus the host is always the
local module.host so no need to pass around the host in most cases or
use it for anything but enforcing the same host.
author | Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se> |
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date | Thu, 16 Mar 2023 17:52:10 +0100 |
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2 summary: Throttle authentication attempts with optional tarpit | |
3 ... | |
4 | |
5 Introduction | |
6 ============ | |
7 | |
8 This module lets you put a per-IP limit on the number of failed | |
9 authentication attempts. | |
10 | |
11 It features an optioanal | |
12 [tarpit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarpit_%28networking%29), i.e. | |
13 waiting some time before returning an "authentication failed" response. | |
14 | |
15 Configuration | |
16 ============= | |
17 | |
18 ``` {.lua} | |
19 modules_enabled = { | |
20 -- your other modules | |
21 "limit_auth"; | |
22 } | |
23 | |
24 limit_auth_period = 30 -- over 30 seconds | |
25 | |
26 limit_auth_max = 5 -- tolerate no more than 5 failed attempts | |
27 | |
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28 -- Will only work with Prosody trunk: |
1858 | 29 limit_auth_tarpit_delay = 10 -- delay answer this long |
30 ``` | |
31 | |
32 Compatibility | |
33 ============= | |
34 | |
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35 Requires 0.9 or later. The tarpit feature requires Prosody trunk. |