[CentOS] Re: Hardening CentOS by removing "hacker" tools

[Ruslan Sivak]

Scott Silva wrote:
> on 6-6-2008 4:28 PM Ruslan Sivak spake the following:
>> Dennis McLeod wrote:
>>> They basically detect port 
>>>> scans and add a firewall rule to temporarily block that ip.  Does 
>>>> anyone know what tool that is?
>>>>
>>>> Also disabling remote login as root should help.
>>>>
>>>> Russ
>>>>     
>>>
>>>
>>> Fail2ban, is what you are looking for, I think....
>>>
>>> http://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
>>>
>>> Dennis
>>>
>>> ____________________________________________
>>>   
>>
>> Sweet, actually this looks more like what I wanted, but rackspace 
>> said wasn't available.  This bans the ips if there are a lot of 
>> password failures.
>>
>> There is also another tool which bans ips for port scans.  I think 
>> it's been discontinued, but perhaps there is another one out there?
>>
>> Russ
> I think that was portsentry.
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/sentrytools/
>
>

Yep, that's it.  The keyword being was.  I believe I tried installing it 
in the past with no success.  Is there another project that took over, 
or is there a way to install this still?

Russ