Subj : Unwanted connections to port 23.
To : Phil Kimble
From : Janis Kracht
Date : Thu Nov 02 2017 02:02 pm
Hi Phil!
>>> I've tried Janis' iptables suggestion, but it isn't working.
> Have a look at fail2ban www.fail2ban.org claims to be a "poor man's ids".
Nah, my system is fine using iptables. IIRC fail2ban uses iptables, right?
> I installed it from the yum repos on CentOS7 & configured it for 3 attempts.
>If you fail to login for 3 attempts you are banned for 15 minutes. All activit
> is logged. Luckily I was smart enough to setup several local accounts <Thx
> Janis>
> so when I forget the admin password I was still able to reset the timer for
> that
> acount via sudo...
