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Old Apr 14, 2010, 11:52 PM   #1
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lock user accounts in mysql database

anyone think a captcha will prevent it?

I'm trying to find a good place to get started to prevent brute forcing etc on user accounts for my website. Right now I have a php login script and a mysql database where i manually add users then md5 the pws. Google was really no help found 1 topic about it maybe im wording it wrong in searches

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Old Apr 15, 2010, 12:17 AM   #2
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Hi Sean,

Take this into your login php thread as it pertains to that and you will get a better response if people know the whole story of what you are doing.

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