Who's Attacking My Server?

Re:Who's Attacking My Server? by rascul on Sunday March 13, 2022 @01:02PM (#30663223)

I believe the implication is that a properly configured server isn't going to allow passwords, and fail2ban isn't much more than a log size reducer when passwords aren't allowed.

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Re:Who's Attacking My Server? by randomtwiddler on Sunday March 13, 2022 @11:43PM (#30668318)

I'm all about reducing the noise in log files.

I've had three production servers go down for various clients and the primary reason was full disk, primarily due to log files.

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Re:Who's Attacking My Server? by alternatetwo on Monday March 14, 2022 @02:03PM (#30675758)

We've had a server go "down" due to log files too, but not because of size, but because of inodes. I think the samba server logged each incoming request into an empty text file with the IP. This eventually caused some problems, but we could still ssh in and delete the files ... but it's not fun to find out what even happened and to do that without autocomplete.

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Re:Who's Attacking My Server? by tjoff on Monday March 14, 2022 @02:19AM (#30669071)

Nothing wrong with a decent password.

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