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authorMichael Kozono <mkozono@gmail.com>2019-08-23 12:52:53 -0700
committerMichael Kozono <mkozono@gmail.com>2019-08-23 12:52:53 -0700
commit8af8da09d0d25d25b5977b7c74da364e6fbec5fa (patch)
tree1473c344b7ee0d4c79b19c2fad03b0773ac5e3dc
parent24ff249ded4bc2098e590d1f3605a3ebe3954723 (diff)
downloadgitlab-ce-mk/remove-jwt-from-rate-limit-docs.tar.gz
Note some JWT requests aren't rate limitedmk/remove-jwt-from-rate-limit-docs
-rw-r--r--doc/security/rack_attack.md2
-rw-r--r--doc/user/gitlab_com/index.md4
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/security/rack_attack.md b/doc/security/rack_attack.md
index b99bfb16829..4ad5fd0d16c 100644
--- a/doc/security/rack_attack.md
+++ b/doc/security/rack_attack.md
@@ -81,6 +81,8 @@ This limit is reset by requests that authenticate successfully. For example, 29
failed authentication requests followed by 1 successful request, followed by 29
more failed authentication requests would not trigger a ban.
+JWT requests authenticated by gitlab-ci-token are excluded from this limit.
+
No response headers are provided.
## Settings
diff --git a/doc/user/gitlab_com/index.md b/doc/user/gitlab_com/index.md
index af37cc896ad..8f1048260f2 100644
--- a/doc/user/gitlab_com/index.md
+++ b/doc/user/gitlab_com/index.md
@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ Source:
#### Git and container registry failed authentication ban
-GitLab.com responds with HTTP status code 403 for 1 hour, if 30 failed
+GitLab.com responds with HTTP status code `403` for 1 hour, if 30 failed
authentication requests were received in a 3-minute period from a single IP address.
This applies only to Git requests and container registry (`/jwt/auth`) requests
@@ -324,6 +324,8 @@ This limit is reset by requests that authenticate successfully. For example, 29
failed authentication requests followed by 1 successful request, followed by 29
more failed authentication requests would not trigger a ban.
+JWT requests authenticated by gitlab-ci-token are excluded from this limit.
+
No response headers are provided.
### Admin Area settings