Single sign-on 4.63 - Tuesday 10th September 2013
Single sign-on 4.63 was released on Tuesday 10th September 2013. Highlights from this release include:
General improvements and fixes
- A bug that caused some users, who have become Postgraduate Research staff after previously being students, to be incorrectly identified as students has been fixed
- The forgotten password screen now shows your username at the start of the recovery process, to allow you to recover a lost username
- Repeated failed authentication attempts or account recoveries will now cause users to be blacklisted for a short period to prevent brute force attacks
Bug
- [] - Two factor FAQ popovers fall off the bottom
Improvement
- [] - Change wording on reset password screen depending on options
- [] - Better ways of determining whether a user from AD is staff or student
- [] - Show your username at the start of the forgotten username/password process
New Feature
- [] - Blacklist IP addresses after a certain number of failed authentication attempts
Task
- [] - Throttle access to password recovery
- [] - Re-enable alternative email account recovery