On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 11:01:18AM -0800, Daniel M. wrote:
> Has anyone written a captcha module to "enhance" login
> security?  

That was discussed briefly but nobody seemed too excited about it, or at least
not excited enough to write it. Personally I don't like them, and wish there
were a non-offensive way of asking "are you a real person and not a machine?"

With the IP restrictions (limit to how many accounts per day from 1 IP) and the
confirmation email, I haven't noticed Scoop having a scripted account creation
attack vulnerability. All its problems seem to be from real people who go out
of their way to switch IPs to create multiple accounts.

> How about the max_login_attempts deal?
> 
> I use that on my site and it works quite well.

I just checked the bug muncher and that bug (113) has a patch - which was never
flagged for review so I didn't see it. I use bugzilla's search feature to look
for that flag to find patches to test - and I'm not looking through every bug
individually to see if somebody forgot to set the flag. I wasn't ignoring you,
honest :-)

> One enhancement I would love to see in Scoop is to
> divide the boxes and blocks into categories instead of
> getting one "master" list.

Blocks are already split into categories; this has been in for quite a while
now. Boxes haven't yet, but it's been discussed now that the number of boxes is
getting quite high.

-janra