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#29752 Security Exceptions Log page "Login failure" question

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Latest post by on Sunday, 01 July 2018 17:17 CDT

Thursday, 31 May 2018 11:47 CDT

webackup
Hello,

I just got a chance to read the announcement below, so I successfully updated Admin Tools to 5.1.2.

https://www.akeebabackup.com/news/1693-admin-tools-security-bulletin-may-2018.html

From the link above - after successfully updated - I checked issue number 1 by checking Security Exceptions Log page, filter by reason "Login failure", and I expected to see nothing.

However, when I filter by reason "Login failure", I was still seeing records for this reason.

I am not sure if it is because of 1) I enabled the option to log failed login password. For some reason, I could not find this option in Admin Tools. Please advise if I need to disable it. or 2) something in the configuration prevented the deletion of these records when I perform update from 5.0.2 to 5.1.2.

Please advise.

Thank you,

M
Edited by webackup on 2018-05-31 11:47 CDT

Friday, 01 June 2018 04:02 CDT

tampe125
Hello,

Admin Tools will automatically delete old logs about failed logins during the update.
However, if an error happens during the delete, old logs could be retained. You can easily fix that by manually searching for those security exceptions and delete those records.

Regarding the option to store the failed password, that has been automatically removed.

Davide Tampellini

Developer and Support Staff

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Sunday, 01 July 2018 17:17 CDT

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