[wp-testers] Incorrect Username / Incorrect Password

Austin Matzko if.website at gmail.com
Wed Apr 2 15:57:54 GMT 2008


On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 11:14 AM, WP Testers List <wp-testing at mou.me.uk> wrote:
>  Are there any plans to replace this double-error thing with a standard
>  "username/password combination not recognised" or something equally
>  generic?  Is there a ticket already completed?  I can't check myself because
>  my companies over zealous firewall considers anything with "wordpress" in
>  the url to be evil!  Yeah, I know, its bullsh*t...

This has been discussed a number of times on the WP lists, and I think
the consensus is that such "security by obscurity" is of little value,
especially since almost all WP installs have an "admin" user. Any such
solution would need to be combined with a way of changing one's user
name.


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