module to lock user account after failed login attempts

Posted by Barrett on February 13, 2009 at 4:55pm

Does anyone know of a module to lock a user account after a given number of failed login attempts? I searched and found a module request from 2007 (http://drupal.org/node/156044) where someone was looking for that functionality but I don't see that such a thing has been written. I dont want to start writing code if it already exists.

Thanks,
Barrett

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Posted by WorldFallz on February 13, 2009 at 6:17pm

There's the http://drupal.org/project/user_disable module that does exactly this, but it's currently only available for d5. It's not a very large module, so it shouldn't require too much effort to upgrade it for d6.

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Thanks, WorldFallz. Don't

Posted by Barrett on February 13, 2009 at 6:52pm

Thanks, WorldFallz. Don't know why I wasn't able to find that.

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Posted by WorldFallz on February 13, 2009 at 6:56pm

I don't know why either-- it took me a bit of searching to find also. Had I not remembered seeing it before, I probably would have given up thinking it didn't exist, lol.

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In case anyone else is

Posted by Barrett on February 13, 2009 at 7:09pm

In case anyone else is looking, I also found the Login Security module. The two modules are apparently (http://drupal.org/node/311738) very close in the functionality they provide and Login Security has at least a D6 dev version available.

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Posted by WorldFallz on February 13, 2009 at 7:24pm

Also seems to be used by more people-- perhaps that's why the other module hasn't intitiated an upgrade yet.

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