I have just connected to an XG Firewall and as well as the user name and password and underneath is a captcha image with a box to type in response.
Haven't seen anything about that?
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I have just connected to an XG Firewall and as well as the user name and password and underneath is a captcha image with a box to type in response.
Haven't seen anything about that?
I didn't mind the addition of the captcha, although it doesn't always seem to work right. Now I've updated from 17.5.11 to 17.5.12 and it's vanished. They say it's supposed to be on WAN and not LAN, and while it was showing up on both in .11, now it's not showing up at all after the .12 update. Additionally, why don't we get an option as to turning it on or off? Very frustrating. Similar to why MFA requires you type the code after your password, and isn't a separate box, pop-up, or something.
- Nathan Kodak
I didn't mind the addition of the captcha, although it doesn't always seem to work right. Now I've updated from 17.5.11 to 17.5.12 and it's vanished. They say it's supposed to be on WAN and not LAN, and while it was showing up on both in .11, now it's not showing up at all after the .12 update. Additionally, why don't we get an option as to turning it on or off? Very frustrating. Similar to why MFA requires you type the code after your password, and isn't a separate box, pop-up, or something.
- Nathan Kodak
Unknown said:I didn't mind the addition of the captcha, although it doesn't always seem to work right. Now I've updated from 17.5.11 to 17.5.12 and it's vanished. They say it's supposed to be on WAN and not LAN, and while it was showing up on both in .11, now it's not showing up at all after the .12 update. Additionally, why don't we get an option as to turning it on or off? Very frustrating. Similar to why MFA requires you type the code after your password, and isn't a separate box, pop-up, or something.
And of course, now it's back, on both LAN and WAN. There's some issues with this implementation I think.
- Nathan Kodak
Hi Nathan,
Could you please raise a support case and then share your case number with me for further investigation into the Captcha issue you are having?
Thanks,
This should also be an option to turn on, best practice or not, for users or admins. Every time I think about trying XG again, I'm just being given more reasons not to, and stick to UTM. If captcha goes to UTM, I'm uninstalling it. There are ways around captcha and while may be a 'best practice', it's certainly not the 'best way to do it' and old tech ways of making someone just feel secure.
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If I understand your point well, like it was mentionned before, these are CLI commands related to captcha
system captcha_authentication_VPN show
system captcha_authentication_VPN enable
system captcha_authentication_VPN disable
They just don't work however. Except for the "show" option.
Regards
Paul Jr
Hi Big_Buck
Could you please raise a support case and PM me with your case number for further investigation?
Thanks,
Received an answer from support this morning.
The Captcha added are for the security purpose. You would not be able to remove them as of now. They will be visible if the firewall or user portal is access from WAN.
Well. Clearly, the tech there haven't read this post. None of our Firewall behaves the same, and none is accessed from WAN or User Portal. And yet, one consistently shows Captcha. The screen shot aint lying.
Paul Jr
Hi Big_Buck
When the firewall is accessed using its public IP(in your case Port2) address the Captcha will appear and there is no option to disable it as of now on the WAN zone.
Captcha authentication serves as an extra security defense against scripted automated login attempts Captcha has been added to the XG Firewall admin and user portals on the WAN and VPN zones.
Thanks,