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#39875 Tracked Admin Account Failed Login

Posted in ‘Admin Tools for Joomla! 4 & 5’
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Latest post by nicholas on Friday, 24 November 2023 02:32 CST

Friday, 24 November 2023 00:23 CST

danielck

Dear Support,

We have been using Admin Tools for our Joomla website for a number of years and we are happy and grateful that it is protecting our websites.

We have a team of site admins comprised of content owners from different departments, updating the content of our websites.

From time to time, there will be one admin who forgets their admin password or user ID and gets banned after X number of tries.

Currently, Admin Tools only record the IP Address that was banned. There seems no way to see which admin has issues logging in.

Is there such feature available for Admin Tools? If no, will this feature be considered in the future?

 

Friday, 24 November 2023 00:55 CST

nicholas

You can already tell Admin Tools to track the username (but not the password) which was used. Components, Admin Tools, Web Application Firewall, Configure WAF, Hardening Options, Log usernames set to Yes.

With that option enabled the entries in Components, Admin Tools, Web Application Firewall, Blocked Request Log will include the username. Please note that this information will appear only for requests which were blocked while this option is active. It won't appear for requests blocked before enabling this option.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

Friday, 24 November 2023 00:58 CST

danielck

Hi Nicholas,

Thanks for pointing the direction.🙏

Glad that Admin Tools already support this out-of-box! 😊

Friday, 24 November 2023 02:32 CST

nicholas

You're welcome and thank you for the kind words. It's much appreciated!

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

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