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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: ========================================= **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