Admin API Override ratelimiting for users should allow overriding more than the equivalent of rc_message

[Gnuxie]

Description:

https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/admin_api/user_admin_api.html#override-ratelimiting-for-users

This API seems to only allow overriding limits consistent with rc_message and none of the other options that are available in homeserver,yaml.

Crucially though this excludes at least:

• sending state events
• creating rooms

I'm not sure of the rate limits in homeserver.yaml they apply to.

Other things that would be nice to disable selectively (for integration tests and have less justification than the above) are:

• logging in and out (rc_login)
• joining and leaving rooms (rc_joins)

[callahad]

@Gnuxie Is this a nice-to-have, or is there a specific driver for this request?

[Gnuxie]

Hi @callahad , I think it's a nice to have. We have recently started testing Mjolnir with rate limiting but didn't want to slow down all of our tests by changing all of the global rate limits. To me it is "good enough" to test with just rc_message but it's still a little sketchy. At the least the documentation should probably make it clear that the endpoint only overrides the equivalent of rc_message.