[CentOS] Dealing with brute force attacks

Fri May 15 11:46:56 UTC 2009
William Merlotto <wmerlotto at gmail.com>

Hi!

I suggest another software, OSSEC (http://www.ossec.net/).
It's more complete (and complex) than fail2ban.

Regards,
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William
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2009/5/15 Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com>

> 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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