Forum, Exceeded Logins and CAPTCHA

[pixelita]

I am having to use a different browser to post this because in Firefox 3, I get an error after logging out ONCE, and attempting to log back in ONE time:
You exceeded the maximum allowed number of login attempts. In addition to your username and password you now also have to solve the CAPTCHA below.

And the captcha is really hard on these tired old eyes. I've cleared ALL the private data from FireFox, restarted it and I still can't get past the captcha to login. I am not sure captcha is actually the problem, since, in desperation, I created a new account and I was able to get past that captcha code just fine.

I'm on my old (default) account using the Opera browser. Fortunately, I'd logged into this forum once before using Opera and that's the only reason I was able to get in.

So it seems to be that for whatever reason, the board thinks you've logged in "too many times" if you logout ONCE, AND it's not letting me get past captcha.

Thoughts?

(I didn't know where else to post this; feel free to move it.)

[Dr.CSS]

This is happening randomly, even happened to me, the only thing I found was to tell it you lost password and it sends a reset for it...

[jonimueller]

This has nothing to do with CMSMS, it has to do with THIS forum. I am now locked out of my Pixelita account due to this behavior and had to create a new account (JoniMueller). It's this forum captcha/login that I'm having issue with. (I'm having issues with CMSMS on another site, but if I can't get into the forum, those are moot pints now!)

[pixelita]

I cannot login AT ALL nor can I get a new password as Pixelita in FireFox or IE on any machine (I've tried from the office yesterday and from my desktop here at home today). I CAN login as Pixelita in Opera, tho.

I can login using Firefox and IE with my new JoniMueller account without the captcha issues. So it's a USER specific issue, right?

In any event, posting from the Opera browser now.

[uniqu3]

Having almost the same issues, i can login from my main machine using Chrome with no problems but unable to login with any other Browser or computer or using Forum Runner app from Andorid i always get message exceeded login attempt.

[Sonya]

I had the same problem. My solution, as DrCSS suggested, was to reset password by clicking on "forgot password" on the page with CAPTCHA.

[uniqu3]

Thx Sonya, this helped.

[jonimueller]

I AM PIXELITA. I have to use a secondary account b/c I am locked out of signing in as pixelita. I cannot, as I posted earlier, get past the captcha. No way no how. Can some admin merge the two accounts into JoniMueller at least?

[pixelita]

I am logged in as PIXELITA now because I went upstairs to another computer. Thank Bob I have about five of them. Thanks for the offer to merge accounts, Mark. I couldn't find a way to reply to you from within the JoniMueller account. Apparently it's so new that it's basically crippled, all posts have to be approved, can't PM anyone.

I MISS SMF!!!

But I got back in as Pixelita (obviously) and I'm now keen to solve my issues with http://www.welovecmsms.com ...

Thanks!

[calguy1000]

I finally got some time to take a look at this. and I think I finally solved it.

It appears to have been a bug in the SMF authentication plugin to phpbb3. It appears that that plugin did not receive the appropriate love that the other plugins did in recent versions, particularly related to captcha.

Anyways. The problem with repeated login attempts has been reported on various PHPBB3 forums before, and seems to be bots attempting to crawl the sites. I think I've taken care of that with the settings.

Secondly, I copied some code from the regular phpbb3 authentication mechanism and pasted it into the smf authentication mechanism, and that appears to have solved the problem.