Troubleshooting Login Issues: How to Fix Broken Logins in 15 Minutes or Less

[Lacy33]

Greg, you're awesome, the time that you spend keeping this forum going is amazing. Thank you so much for all that you do!

Yes, thank you.

 

[Anamitra]

Maybe I'm just stupid, but logins currently seem to be broken. I can log in by making a new account and visiting the URL given in the email. However, if I log out of that account and then try to log back in, I get an error message saying I'm over my quota of failed logins, and I should try again in 15 minutes. After 15 minutes, it still doesn't work.

-Ben Crowell

A similar situation occurred to me today[early morning, 20/05/2011--by the Indian Standard Time]!There was a report that somebody tried a wrong password at least five times and that I should try after 15 minutes.[This repeated several times]
I also got an email from physicsforums.com reporting the IP address of the machine from where this attempt was being made---"The person trying to log into your account had the following IP address: 74.86.200.109"
This address corresponds to that of Physicsforums.com under the name Greg Bernhardt .
[One may check the fact at the link:http://whatismyipaddress.com/ip-lookup
I reported this to the Scientific American as well as at the ID:gregbernhardt@gmail.com

There has been no problem after that--so far

 

[FtlIsAwesome]

Yes, I'm in!


It gave me a scare at first, I thought someone was hacking my account.

I wonder if these are not first signs of the incoming end of the world?

I wonder what the second signs would be

The cosines, of course.

It's fine now because I disabled the login strikes function. but that is a security risk, so it can't stay off forever.

What exactly does that do, and how is it a security risk? Is it that feature that limits you to 5 login attempts?

 

[Borek]

I can stay hooked up until the end of time.

That can be pretty short, with earthquakes striking tomorrow at 18 local time.

 

[lisab]

Greg, you're awesome, the time that you spend keeping this forum going is amazing. Thank you so much for all that you do!

Thanks, Greg !

 

[FtlIsAwesome]

The tradition is to fishslap newcomers.

I believe that tradition should be carried out on the sockpuppet accounts as well--slap the sockpuppets with fishes.

 

[LCKurtz]

I wonder what the second signs would be

a rash

Oh Sh**t!

 

[dlgoff]

That can be pretty short, with earthquakes striking tomorrow at 18 local time.

If we have to go. At least we'll be hooked up to PF. Can't think of a better way to go.

 

[LCKurtz]

That can be pretty short, with earthquakes striking tomorrow at 18 local time.

Whew, thank God! No problem here..we don't use 24 hour time.

 

[Borek]

Interesting idea, I will give it a shot.

Something like date +%r may save a day.