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A fake Django admin login screen to notify admins of attempted unauthorized access.

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# django-admin-honeypot

django-admin-honeypot is a fake Django admin login screen to notify admins of attempted unauthorized access. This app was inspired by discussion in and around Paul McMillan's security talk at DjangoCon 2011.

* **Author**: [Derek Payton](http://dmpayton.com)
* **Version**: 0.2.0
* **License**: MIT

## Installation

django-admin-honeypot can be installed in any number of the usual ways:

```
easy_install django-admin-honeypot
```

```
pip install django-admin-honeypot
```

```
pip install -e git+git://github.com/dmpayton/django-admin-honeypot.git#egg=django-admin-honeypot
```

```
git clone git://github.com/dmpayton/django-admin-honeypot.git
cd django-admin-honeypot
python setup.py install
```

etc...

## Usage

* Add `admin_honeypot` to `INSTALLED_APPS`.
* Update your urls.py:

```
urlpatterns = patterns(''
...
url(r'^admin/', include('admin_honeypot.urls')),
url(r'^secret/', include(admin.site.urls)),
)
```

## Settings

**ADMIN\_HONEYPOT\_EMAIL\_ADMINS**
Set to False to disable admin emails on login attempt
***Default:** True*

## Signals

`admin_honeypot.signals.honeypot` is called on every login attempt with the following arguments:

* **instance**: The LoginAttempt object created
* **request**: The current request object

## Testing

python manage.py test admin_honeypot

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