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Preventing Brute Force Attacks With Fail2ban On Fedora 9

Written By
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Falko Timme
Sep 1, 2008

[ Thanks to Falko
Timme
for this link. ]

“In this example I will configure fail2ban to monitor
login attempts to the SSH server, the Proftpd server, login
attempts to .htaccess/.htpasswd protected web sites, to Courier
POP3 and Courier IMAP, and to SASL (for sending
emails).”


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