Final call for feedback: Multi-db

2009-12-17 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
Hi all, This is a second and final call for feedback on the multidb branch. Barring any objections or the discovery of major problems, my intention is to commit this early next week, hitting the alpha 1 feature deadline by the skin of our collective teeth :-) There has been one big change since

Re: preventing brute forcing passwords

2009-12-17 Thread Jeremy Dunck
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Luke Plant wrote: ... > The problem with signals is that they don't return values, and so the > mechanism can't interact with the actual login process.  It can only > notice that something is going on and try to stop it by some external > mechanism. Actually, they

Re: preventing brute forcing passwords

2009-12-17 Thread Mike Axiak
Hey guys, How slow can brute force attacks be? That is, why not just let the web server/load balancer/network stack rate limit client connections to prevent DoS, and effectively thwart brute force attacks? (I have no idea how good password guessing has been these days, so this isn't the most well

Re: preventing brute forcing passwords

2009-12-17 Thread Luke Plant
Hi Tom, > Hello Everyone, > > I noticed that Django's contrib.auth doesn't provide a mechanism > for detecting a password brute force attack. This is necessary for > a couple projects I'm working so I have to implement some kind of > solution and would really like to do it in such a way that i

Re: preventing brute forcing passwords

2009-12-17 Thread tie
And here is another stab at it: http://code.google.com/p/django-brutebuster/ On Dec 17, 9:30 pm, Tom wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I noticed that Django's contrib.auth doesn't provide a mechanism for > detecting a password brute force attack. This is necessary for a > couple projects I'm working s

Re: preventing brute forcing passwords

2009-12-17 Thread Paul McLanahan
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Tom wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I noticed that Django's contrib.auth doesn't provide a mechanism for > detecting a password brute force attack. This is necessary for a > couple projects I'm working so I have to implement some kind of > solution and would really li

preventing brute forcing passwords

2009-12-17 Thread Tom
Hello Everyone, I noticed that Django's contrib.auth doesn't provide a mechanism for detecting a password brute force attack. This is necessary for a couple projects I'm working so I have to implement some kind of solution and would really like to do it in such a way that it could get contributed

Re: What do people think about the get_absolute_url proposal?

2009-12-17 Thread Ivan Sagalaev
Mike Malone wrote: > In my opinion, using the Site module and settings files is damn > annoying. My point is that we better fix these annoyances than leave this way of doing things altogether. > I never use the Site module This is by itself is not the reason why it might be annoying. Django ac

Re: What do people think about the get_absolute_url proposal?

2009-12-17 Thread Ivan Sagalaev
Michael Richardson wrote: > With these cases (the former more so than the latter) you are creating > URLs for an entirely separate project, not your own, essentially. Not "entirely separate". These are projects sharing much of the codebase, just having different SITE_ID in settings. Anyway there

Re: Feedback: Syndication feed views

2009-12-17 Thread Ben Firshman
I've made a few more changes, added many more tests and written documentation. This now fixes #6188, #6304, #6618, #6969, #8758, #8989, #10334, #11069 and #11973. Any final feedback would be appreciated. I'll put it together as a patch and put it in a ticket as soon as possible. Thanks, Be