Displaying 4 results from an estimated 4 matches for "pam_shield".
2010 Aug 29
1
Ignorant question on pam_shield
I've seen pam_shield recommended several times
for protecting against malicious login attempts;
but I'm not quite clear if this requires one
to be already running some pam-based software?
Also, I'm running shorewall,
and would prefer a shorewall based protection,
but the advice I read on googling for this
seem...
2010 Aug 24
3
PAM_shield locking me out?
Yesterday I installed pam_shield and followed the testing suggested and
thought all was well.
today I find that I cannot get to my email account, I can login via ssh
okay (uses keys) but su and sudo give
segmentation faults. I am guessing due to the pam module causing a problem.
As I cannot do remote login as root and sudo and s...
2010 Aug 23
1
Dovecot attack
It seems there was some kind of attack against dovecot on my server
(CentOS-5.5) with a hundred or so logwatch entries like:
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**Unmatched Entries**
dovecot-auth: pam_succeed_if(dovecot:auth):
error retrieving information about user admin
dovecot-auth: pam_succeed_if(dovecot:auth):
error retrieving information about user webmaster
2007 Dec 08
4
disconnect after too many errors?
There are a couple of jerks that are tying to dictionary attack my
email server, and one of the vectors is pop3/imap logins. Something I
would like to do in dovecot, but can't seem to find, is the ability to
disconnect after a certain number of errors. The vast majority of my
users (i.e. me) don't hand-type POP3 or IMAP transactions, but when we
do, we know how to spell things