diff --git a/assets/runtime/config/gitlabhq/rack_attack.rb b/assets/runtime/config/gitlabhq/rack_attack.rb
index b1bbcca1..f650bd92 100644
--- a/assets/runtime/config/gitlabhq/rack_attack.rb
+++ b/assets/runtime/config/gitlabhq/rack_attack.rb
@@ -10,15 +10,16 @@ paths_to_be_protected = [
   "#{Rails.application.config.relative_url_root}/api/#{API::API.version}/session",
   "#{Rails.application.config.relative_url_root}/users",
   "#{Rails.application.config.relative_url_root}/users/confirmation",
-  "#{Rails.application.config.relative_url_root}/unsubscribes/"
-
+  "#{Rails.application.config.relative_url_root}/unsubscribes/",
+  "#{Rails.application.config.relative_url_root}/import/github/personal_access_token"
 ]
 
 # Create one big regular expression that matches strings starting with any of
 # the paths_to_be_protected.
 paths_regex = Regexp.union(paths_to_be_protected.map { |path| /\A#{Regexp.escape(path)}/ })
+rack_attack_enabled = Gitlab.config.rack_attack.git_basic_auth['enabled']
 
-unless Rails.env.test?
+unless Rails.env.test? || !rack_attack_enabled
   Rack::Attack.throttle('protected paths', limit: 10, period: 60.seconds) do |req|
     if req.post? && req.path =~ paths_regex
       req.ip