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@ -118,6 +118,8 @@ These should be defined in your ``settings.py`` file.
be used. Default: ``None``
* ``AXES_VERBOSE``: If ``True``, you'll see slightly more logging for Axes.
Default: ``True``
* ``AXES_USERNAME_FORM_FIELD``: the name of the form field that contains your
users usernames. Default: ``username``
Usage
@ -146,7 +148,10 @@ In your code, you can use ``from axes.utils import reset``.
Issues
======
You may find that Axes is not capturing my failed login attempt. It may be that you need to manually add watch_login to your login url.
Not being locked out after failed attempts
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You may find that Axes is not capturing your failed login attempts. It may be that you need to manually add watch_login to your login url.
For example, in your urls.py::
...
@ -157,3 +162,14 @@ For example, in your urls.py::
(r'^login/$', watch_login(login), {'template_name': 'auth/login.html'}),
...
Locked out without reason
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It may happen that you have suddenly become locked out without a single failed
attempt. One possible reason is that you are using some custom login form and the
username field is named something different than "username", e.g. "email". This
leads to all users attempts being lumped together. To fix this add the following
to your settings:
AXES_USERNAME_FORM_FIELD = "email"