@@ -616,11 +616,11 @@ SilAuth will rate limit failed logins by username and by every untrusted IP
616616address from a login attempt.
617617
618618# #### tl;dr ("the short version")
619- If there have been more than 10 failed logins for a given username (or IP
619+ If there have been more than 5 failed logins for a given username (or IP
620620address) within the past hour, a captcha will be included in the webpage. The
621621user may or may not have to directly interact with the captcha, though.
622622
623- If there have been more than 50 failed logins for that username (or IP address)
623+ If there have been more than 20 failed logins for that username (or IP address)
624624within the past hour, logins for that username (or IP address) will be blocked
625625for up to an hour.
626626
@@ -646,10 +646,10 @@ also actual tests that are run to ensure those descriptions are correct.
646646
647647# #### Example 1
648648
649- - If `BLOCK_AFTER_NTH_FAILED_LOGIN` is 50 , and
650- - if `REQUIRE_CAPTCHA_AFTER_NTH_FAILED_LOGIN` is 10 , and
649+ - If `BLOCK_AFTER_NTH_FAILED_LOGIN` is 20 , and
650+ - if `REQUIRE_CAPTCHA_AFTER_NTH_FAILED_LOGIN` is 5 , and
651651- if there have been 4 failed login attempts for `john_smith`, and
652- - there have been 10 failed login attempts from `11.22.33.44`, and
652+ - there have been 5 failed login attempts from `11.22.33.44`, and
653653- there have been 3 failed login attempts from `192.168.1.2`, and
654654- someone tries to login as `john_smith` from `192.168.1.2` and their request
655655 goes through a proxy at `11.22.33.44`, then
@@ -658,7 +658,7 @@ also actual tests that are run to ensure those descriptions are correct.
658658# #### Example 2
659659
660660- However, if all of the above is true, but
661- - there have now been 55 failed login attempts from `11.22.33.44`, then
661+ - there have now been 25 failed login attempts from `11.22.33.44`, then
662662- any request involving that IP address will be blocked for 25 seconds after
663663 the most recent of those failed logins.
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