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Hi Akeeba

I am having some trouble understanding the “Treat failed lo- gins as security exceptions” options as outlined on page 66 of the Admin Tools manual!

On the Joomla Hardening Options page I have “Treat failed logins as security exceptions “ set to YES.
I note that I have a message that says:
“User registration on your site is disabled, therefore Admin Tools can't deactivate users.”
I am guessing that this refers to the standard Joomla Registration options!?!
And I note that I can not edit “Deactivate user after“ fields.

When I go to the Logging and Reporting Section section I note that in the “Deactivate user after” there is no reference to “Login Failure”

I can definitely register on my site here:
http://www.finalbug.net/network
The thing is that I use Easy Social:
http://stackideas.com/easysocial

Is there a way to get Admin tools to log failed Easy Social Logins automatically Deactivate a Easy Social User after X failed attempts in X time?

thanks

Paul

Hi Nicholas

Thanks for your response.
I understand what you are saying about not getting locked out as a Super User.
It is a security feature for a security feature ;-)
i.e. preventing a hacker hacking a super admin out of his own website.

Am I looking here in the right place?
(Please see the screen shot)

New User Registration Group: has no Self option.

New User Registration Group: is set to Self.

The Easy Social Registrations seem to also turn up here in the Joomla User Data base even though:

Allow User Registration to No but I guess the Easy Social People do something at their end so that this works this way.

Please advise how to proceed

thanks

Paul

I am seeing the Login button now.
I need to check this again next week.
i have some very simple "Denkfehler" thinking mistake!

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