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mod_http_oauth2: Always show early errors to user
Before having validated the client_id, communicating an error back to
the client via redirect would make this an open redirect, so we may just
as well skip past that logic, and especially the warning log message.
author | Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se> |
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date | Thu, 18 May 2023 13:43:17 +0200 |
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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. |