Opened 8 years ago

Closed 8 years ago

#26629 closed New feature (duplicate)

Login failures should be logged

Reported by: Jacob Kaplan-Moss Owned by: nobody
Component: contrib.auth Version: 1.9
Severity: Normal Keywords: login security logigng
Cc: Triage Stage: Unreviewed
Has patch: no Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

Login failures [*] should emit logging messages. There are a couple of good reasons for this:

  • Many compliance regimes (all those deriving from NIST-800-53, so FISMA, PCI, HIPAA, etc) require logging of failed login attempts.
  • It'll makes integration with a SIEM easier out of the box.

[*] we may want to log successes, too, or have a configuration option or somesuch. I tend to think successes are noise, but reasonable people disagree on that point.

[One of a series of bugs from a discussion I had with @mallyvai about improving the security of Django's admin - see https://gist.github.com/mallyvai/bcb0bb827d6d53212879dff23cf15d03 for the full list.]

Change History (3)

comment:1 by Tim Graham, 8 years ago

Resolution: duplicate
Status: newclosed

Duplicate of #20495. Feel free to continue the discussion there and reopen if you feel my closing was in error.

comment:2 by Vaibhav Mallya, 8 years ago

Resolution: duplicate
Status: closednew

Unsure about correct process, but I reopened the original ticket. Should I set that to New instead?

comment:3 by Tim Graham, 8 years ago

Resolution: duplicate
Status: newclosed

I replied on the other ticket.

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