Ban IP on server level after a number of unsuccessful logins

August 24, 2008
Filed under Linux, Server Management

This is a widely used function amongst the server managers. Depending on your system configuration, the server will ban the enforcer’s IP, either putting it in the firewall’s deny list or, on Linux servers with IPTables installed, will put the IP in the drop list.
To achieve this feature, the easiest way is [...]

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