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From: "paul kölle" <pkoelle@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] iptables && fail2ban
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2009 23:05:43
Message-Id: 4A7E0524.9010602@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-server] iptables && fail2ban by mrfroasty
1 mrfroasty schrieb:
2 > I finally got my hands on the subject, but I am not in a position to
3 > play with regular expression.
4 >
5 > REGEX:
6 > #failregex = USER \S+: no such user found from \S* ?\[<HOST>\] to \S+\s*$
7 >
8 > This captures only this kinds of logs on auth.log:
9 > #Aug 6 22:25:59 fileserver proftpd[18234]: fileserver.mzalendo.net
10 > (202.102.135.54[202.102.135.54]) - USER !@#$%^&*: no such user found
11 > from 202.102.135.54 [202.102.135.54] to 192.168.1.34:21
12 >
13 > It misses this:
14 > #Aug 7 20:47:18 fileserver proftpd[23323]: fileserver.mzalendo.net
15 > (gendesktop.mzalendo.net[192.168.1.33]) - USER mysql (Login failed):
16 > Incorrect password.
17 >
18 > Anyone with a smarter regex and interested to share it with me?
19 > I will see if I can learn regex and try to manipulate this expressions.
20 Not really. IMO all these brute-force-polling-logwatcher are pretty bad
21 design. If proftpd uses pam you should search for pam_shield, it can
22 recognize failed logins and insert the appropriate rules into your firewall.
23
24 cheers
25 Paul
26
27 >
28 > Thanks
29 >
30 > GR
31 > mrfroasty
32 >

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Re: [gentoo-server] iptables && fail2ban Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman <buanzo@××××××××××.ar>