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From: Sebastien Tricaud <sebastien.tricaud@wengo.fr>
Subject: Re: repeated failed logons and ignoring them
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 13:43:49 +0200
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To: tyche <tyche@ica.net>
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Netfilter doesn't know about authentication success of failure. Linux
PAM is what you are looking for.
You can simply modify your PAM configuration and use the pam_access
and/or pam_tally module.

You can read documentation about it there :
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/Linux-PAM-html/pam-6.html



tyche wrote:
> over the last few days, my server has been attacked. i would 
> like to limit remote logon attempts by address so that if 
> someone tries to logon from an ip address and fails 3 times, 
> my computer will ignore repeated attempts from that ip 
> address. any idea how to make a rule for this?
>
> tia
>
> tyche
>