How to protect Odoo against brute force attack behind Nginx or Caddy
Odoo community is not protected against brute force attack by default, the system is vulnerable over internet, however Odoo store provides auth_brute_force App which can handle this task, it’s available through this link. But it doesn’t work correctly behind a reverse proxy such as Caddy or Nginx. In the second part of this post, i’ll explain the little tip to make it work. Download and install the module Download the file corresponding to your version of Odoo. Unzip the file “auth_brute_force-9.0.1.1.0.zip”. Move the folder “auth_brute_force” to your module folder: “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/openerp/addons/“. Enable the developper mode through “About” popup. Then go to …
