On Sat, 03 Jan 2009 20:49:35 -0500, Napoleon wrote: > Justin Piszcz wrote: >> >> >> On Thu, 1 Jan 2009, Napoleon wrote: >> >>> I'll admit I'm still pretty green at a lot of this (lots of experience >>> in computers, little in Linux) and don't understand everything. But >>> I'm trying to learn, so please go easy on me :-) >>> >>> I've been having a problem with dictionary hacker attempts on my >>> system (hundreds or even thousands a day), so I implemented the >>> following rules: >>> > <snip> >> >> Solution: apt-get install fail2ban (read up on the docs, it can drop >> IPs based on attempts etc) >> >> Justin. >> >> > For Justin and all the others who responded - thanks. I installed > fail2ban a couple of days ago, and am waiting for someone to try it > again. > > I also tried to find the support forums for qpopper, but the only ones I > found hadn't had a post in over 2 years. So maybe I need to change pop3 > servers. > > But I'm not worried about that right now. I think from the docs that > fail2ban will do what I need. >
You might also want to check out http://packages.debian.org/sid/libpam- shield. That will take care of it for any service. It's in Lenny too. Have fun! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
