Nothing limited failed logins: a password could be guessed at the speed
the server answers. django-axes (8.3.1, Django 5.2, Python 3.10-3.13)
now counts them.
- A user is locked for the address the failed logins come from
(username and IP together), so an attacker cannot lock someone out
from elsewhere and users behind one NAT address do not share a lock.
A successful login resets the count. axes sits in front of every
authentication: the login page with or without OTP, LDAP and the API.
- The number of failed logins (default 5) and the lock time in minutes
(default 15) are on the Settings page (LOGIN_FAILURE_LIMIT,
LOGIN_LOCKOUT_MINUTES, added by migration appsettings.0014) and apply
at once; an invalid value falls back to the default. Unlock with
"manage.py axes_reset_username <username>".
- Behind the bundled nginx every request comes from 127.0.0.1; the
client address is read from X-Real-IP, which nginx sets, but only for
requests from a loopback address or from LOGIN_TRUSTED_PROXIES, so a
forged header does not escape a lock.
settings.py.template gets the app, middleware, backend and AXES_*
settings; README tells existing installations what to copy. Tests that
call client.login now pass a request, which the axes backend needs.
The new tests fail with axes disabled.
The OpenStack-style cloud-init endpoints (index, meta_data.json,
user_data) are fetched by booting VMs, which do not log in. Since the
login-required middleware they redirected to the login page, so the
datasource has not worked. They are login_not_required now; they expose
a hostname and the public SSH keys of a VM's owners.
A VM is found by the reverse DNS name of the client address, and VM
names are not unique (only compute and UUID are). user_data merged the
owners of every VM with that name, so a user who named their VM like
another user's VM got their key into that VM at its next cloud-init
run. Keys are now given only when exactly one VM has the name.
The client address is the last X-Forwarded-For entry, which nginx in
the default setup appends; gunicorn listens on 127.0.0.1 only. The bare
except around the reverse lookup is narrowed to OSError.
Super-linter ran from the unpinned :latest image and, because of
branches-ignore: [master], never on pull requests to master. Ruff now
checks syntax errors and pyflakes rules (E9, F) on every push and PR.
Fixes the existing findings: unused imports and variables, an unused
duplicate import in instances/tests.py, and the star import in
accounts/views.py. settings-dev.py keeps its star import of the base
settings.
