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Preventing Brute Force Attacks With Fail2ban On OpenSUSE 10.3 In this article I will show how to install and configure fail2ban on an OpenSUSE 10.3 system. Fail2ban is a tool that observes login attempts to various services, e.g. SSH, FTP, SMTP, Apache, etc., and if it finds failed login attempts again and again from the same IP address or host, fail2ban stops further login attempts from that IP address/host by blocking it with an iptables firewall rule.

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By: scenic2
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Thank you Falko!

Denyhosts installation in OpenSuse 11 failed. So this tutorial is very useful.

Thank You again.

 

By: harish
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As I have read the whole document it is working fine but at last you mentioned that "take a look at /etc/hosts.deny"

 When I typed iptables -L I can see IP has been dropped but no entries has been found in hosts.deny file.

 Can you please do the need full for this. I need all the banned IP's should come automatically in hosts.deny file for permanantly. And I have to allow it manually. Is it possible?

 Thanks,

 Harish.T