fail2ban
Daemon to ban hosts that cause multiple authentication errors
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/ () ) / / / ' \/ ' \ \,/./\, v1.1.2.dev1 20??/??/?? Fail2Ban: ban hosts that cause multiple authentication errors Fail2Ban scans log files like /var/log/auth.log and bans IP addresses conducting too many failed login attempts. It does this by updating system firewall rules to reject new connections from those IP addresses, for a configurable amount of time. Fail2Ban comes out-of-the-box ready to read many standard log files, such as those for sshd and Apache, and is easily configured to read any log file of your choosing, for any error you wish. Though Fail2Ban is able to reduce the rate of incorrect authentication attempts, it cannot eliminate the risk presented by weak…
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