About:
authfail is a tool for adding IP addresses to an ACL when entities from those addresses attempt to log into a system, but cause authentication failures in auth.log. It reads data from auth.log in real time and adds the IP into netfilter with a DROP/REJECT policy.

Author:
Bartek Krajnik [contact developer]

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Homepage:
http://www.bmk-it.com/projects/authfail/
Tar/GZ:
http://www.bmk-it.com/[..]ojects/authfail/files/authfail-1.1.6.tgz

Trove categories: [change]

[Environment]		Console (Text Based)
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		POSIX
[Programming Language]		Perl
[Topic]		Security, System :: Logging, System :: Systems Administration

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	1.1.6	21-Aug-2007	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Comments

[»] Important:make this changes for fedora core
by ottacom - May 23rd 2005 06:51:57

replace from line 70:
sub update_iptables{
$ip_d = shift;
$ipd= substr($ip_d,7);
.
.
.
Work fine!

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[»] Great Software
by ottacom - May 19th 2005 09:46:08

You can resolve a seiruos security problem, and reduce the incoming traffic.
Good!

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