[CentOS] Dealing with brute force attacks

[Robert Heller]

At Thu, 14 May 2009 13:00:09 -0700 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:

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> on 5-14-2009 11:46 AM James B. Byrne spake the following:
> > On: Thu, 14 May 2009 08:48:36 -0700, Bill Campbell
> > <centos at celestial.com> wrote:
> >> You might look at fail2ban which can automatically create
> >> iptables blocks when things like this happen.
> >>
> > 
> > I went to the source forge website, but the rh rpm is inaccessible.
> > I really do not wish to join yet another mailing list simply to
> > report this so if anyone here is a member there as well please let
> > them know.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> http://packages.sw.be/fail2ban/

If you have either epel or rpmforge repos setup, then

yum install fail2ban

also will work.

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