I've added support for [checkpassword](http://cr.yp.to/checkpwd/interface.html), since those generally don't have any rate-limiting cleverness to interfere with ikiwiki's, and made a few other changes. Please check out the plugin docs again and let me know if this is closer to being acceptable.
-- [[schmonz]]
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+> I actually think that the rate limiting is a good thing. After all,
+> ikiwiki doesn't do its own login rate limiting. Just need to find a way
+> to disentangle the two locks. --[[Joey]]
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+>> Ah, ok, I misunderstood your comment. I'll see what I can figure out. --[[schmonz]]
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+>>> My time's been limited for this, but I just saw [[todo/avoid_thrashing]]. How does that interact with pwauth or checkpassword? --[[schmonz]]
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+>>>> The DOS still happens, it just uses less memory. --[[Joey]]