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  Janis>
> so when I forget the admin password I was still able to reset the timer for
> that
> acount via sudo...

> I like it lots!

Great :)

Take care,
Janis

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