Rate-limit your login attempts at the authentication backend level. Login attempts are stored in the cache for 5 minutes and IPs with more than 30 failed login attempts in the last 5 minutes are blocked.

The numbers (30 attempts, 5 minutes) as well as the blocking strategy can be customized.

• Authors: Bruno Renié and contributors
• Licence: BSD
• Compatibility: Django 1.4 and greater
• Documentation: http://django-ratelimit-backend.rtfd.org
• Code: https://github.com/brutasse/django-ratelimit-backend

• Simon Willison for his ratelimitcache idea

git clone https://[email protected]/brutasse/django-ratelimit-backend.git

Hack and run the tests:

python setup.py test

To run the tests for all supported Python and Django versions:

pip install tox
tox