Gentoo Archives: gentoo-security

From: Christophe Garault <christophe@×××××××.org>
To: gentoo-security@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-security] If your interested
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 08:43:37
Message-Id: 434A284D.7010404@garault.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-security] If your interested by Bernhard Egger
1 Bernhard Egger a écrit :
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3 > exactly. I would prefer a solution where an IP is automatically blocked
4 > for a limited amount of time after, say, 3 failed login attempts.
5 > I don't know how to do this, but maybe somebody already has a script for
6 > something like that?
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8 This is exactly what fail2ban do. It's a very nice script written in
9 python that can block an IP for an amount of time after several login
10 attempts. It can monitor ssh and apache. Look at
11 http://sourceforge.net/projects/fail2ban or directly emerge it as it is
12 allready in Portage. I have it running for a couple of months and I must
13 say that I'm very satisfied.
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