How do I monitor who is ssh'ing into a box (SLES) as well as failed attempts? How can I log their IP addresses, even if they're not in DNS?/var/log/messages I see their hostname but no IP address
View 13 RepliesI have been trying to get pam_tally2 to block failed logins with ssh. No matter how many failed logins I do I can still log in with the correct password using SSH. Anyone have this working?
Here are the configuration I am using. I have put this in sshd and password-auth-ac.
auth required pam_tally2.so deny=3 file=/var/log/tallylog lock_time=180 unlock_time=1200 magic_root account required pam_tally2.so magic_root In the /var/log/secure I do see messages related pam_tally2 and the counter going up.
Failed login attempts are logged to syslog with the user id or login id set to UNKNOWN_USER or UNSET.Anybody know if this is configurable. I would rather it just pass the actual id that the user used. Doesn't matter if it exist or not, just want to know if someone is guessing at user names and what those user names are
View 1 Replies View RelatedHow do you configure proftpd so that once a user has failed to login and reached the MaxLoginAttempts. That they can not retry logging in for another 4 hours ?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI would like to detect every login on my server. Not only ssh logins (virtual terminals) but also physical logins.There is a way to use nagios or a script to watch log files.But I would like to know is there a way to catch that information one step before.I thought about watching /dev/pts for changes but that is not different than log watching and everything does not appear in /dev/pts like a ssh tunnel (ssh -N user@server). These are only visible in logs because ssh tunnels do not open terminals.But I would like to be able to catch these on login.
View 8 Replies View RelatedIs there a way to lock out logins at the console? I ask this because I can not login at the console but can remotely login to the system via ssh. I'm guessing I blindly implemented a security option and didn't know what I was doing when I did it.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to secure the CentOS servers on our company network as the current situation is, shall we say, less-than-ideal: remote root logins with the same password across several servers (behind a firewall, on non-standard ports, but still) and several key processes running as root. My proposal to amend this consists of the following:
- setup a bare as possible SSH-gateway with only the normal user accounts to handle remote access
- disable the root login from anywhere else but LOCAL and create special accounts with root permissions for our ~4 system administrators, like admin.foo admin.bar that can only login from inside the company network, using SSH-keys.
So far my biggest obstacle seems to be creating the administrative users, how do I go about and do that? When I simply create a user adminfoo with uid=0 it will show on my shell as root, which makes it useless as a way to make our admins accountable for their actions. BTW, my initial proposal to use sudo unfortunately met with strong resistance, because it compromises usability.
Lastb often shows me a huge list of attempted ssh logins.Such as this excerpt:
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admin ssh:notty Sat Sep 11 23:47 - 23:47 (00:00) 184-154-37-12.Huge-DNS.COM
root ssh:notty Sat Sep 11 23:47 - 23:47 (00:00) 184-154-37-12.Huge-DNS.COM
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I'm tasked with creating a base image of ubuntu (one for server, one for workstation) that is locked down and has all the fluff taken out (naturally workstation will have more fluff left in it than server). Task list looks about like this:
1. Create list of deb packages "allowed", write script to list/uninstall everything else.
2. Hook the logins into either enterprise kerberos or Active Directory (yuck).
3. Write scripts to check things like setuid/setguid, disabling su, checking sudo permissions, configure iptables, etc.
4. Use a scanner to scan the system from outside the system (was thinking of using backtrace).
5. Custom-compile the kernel to strip out all the unneeded modules.
Before embarking on this awesome task I figured I'd check with you guys to see if you know of some resources that would make this task easier/quicker. I'm sure someone out there has already headed down this branch.
PS My boss *loves* ubuntu and isn't to keen on going with a deb (or other) distro that is already "security trimmed" without some serious convincing. I'm sure there are some out there, and if you want to pass along a couple for consideration, I'll check them out, but no guarantees he'll let me use it.
I've firewall machine customers connect on it then connect to one of another 3 machines as root through ssh key , is there any way to know which user connect to which machine and what command that he has executed without using script command ?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm going to start monitoring our Linux servers with a log management/correlation tool to take a proactive approach to the security of our systems.
Right now I'm going to search for log events that include the following:
Any other commands or logs that would be good to correlate or be alerted on when a potential breach or suspicous activity is happening on the box? Logging cleared, permission changes on accounts or particular files or directories? What would you want to see while monioring your servers?
have around 20-30 HP and Dell Hardware where we have attached Pen Drive. There is no Rack-lock facility. A misuse of Pen Drive is reported and it happens every alternative day that someone unplug and theft the drive attached.There is no camera facility to monitor.I have a plan to write a script which will login to every machine through ILO and watch the USB availability. In case anyone dettach the USB, a mail will be sent to the administrator and thereby the steps could be taken.Does this idea look feasible.
View 13 Replies View RelatedI am currently running a 64-bit Fedora 14 server which hosts a game server, a voice server, and remote desktop functionality, each on a distinct TCP port. I am currently using the built-in firewall to deny all traffic other than ICMP ping/pong and TCP traffic on those specific ports.I am looking for a graphical application which will let me monitor any connections being made to my server in order to keep an eye out for possible security concerns. To be more specific, I'd like to be able to see the source IP addresses, TCP/UDP ports, and individual bandwidth in use by external connections being made to the server, along with any other information that might be helpful in identifying a possible intrusion attempt.
View 3 Replies View RelatedIs there a program that monitors and displays 'who' is on your wireless Internet signal that one may not be aware of? Like, the ability to see when someone that you don't know is accessing your locked wireless?
View 9 Replies View RelatedAt our company we have a central server with client files. This server has a SSH server installed, and through Nautilus all employees can access the files. However, I have a few questions:
1. Most employees need access to all folders, because they might use them at some point in time. However, I want to make sure they are not accessing things they do not need. How can I do this? For instance, if somebody copies all of the folders to his/her computer, I want to be able to see this in some sort of log. Can this be done? Copying and accessing in general is what is of my concern.
2. Some employees only need access to specific folders. Can this be easily configured with SFTP?
3. Some also use SSH and type commands which I want to check every now and then (e.g. to make sure an intern is not again copying information or accessing folders they should not be in). What is a good way to do this?
is someone can guide the best open source tools to monitor as webbase,gui,shell prompt
View 1 Replies View RelatedI was reading a magazine article today which was a discussion of internet detective work for tracking down ip addresses which attempt an ssh login to your machine. I have never really paid much attention to network security since I only run a small home network. I have WPA encryption and a firewall on my router. But while reading this article, I remembered that I myself has seen log files in the past that inidicated someone somewhere had attempted to log into my machine (attempts all failed). This had happened a few times, but I never really considered it a threat.
But, the more I read about home computers becoming "zombies" for criminals, I guess I am getting a little paranoid in my old age, particularly since my wife does quite a bit of business on the net with credit cards. I have four computers connected to the net and each other on this network, and would like to be able to easily detect attempted log ins and deal with them quickly.
So my reason for posting is to ask if someone could recommend a novice-friendly application for monitoring traffic to check this intermittently. I have read bodhi.zazen's excellent tutorial on snort, but I it appears to be written for large lan's or web servers and is over-kill for a small home network.
I am striving to setup OSSEC to monitor some specific files for realtime changes! Is this possible? I can't really find a lot of info from their Documentation
Some Examples:
/etc/myfile.txt is deleted. I need this to be reported.
/etc/myfile.txt is created again so I need this to be reported again!
This has to happen instantly though, because the file might be deleted and created again many times in a short period of time.. Another one...
/etc/passwd is touched (accessed) even if there is no changes! Can this be reported as well?
went through the tutorial on FedoraSolved for securing ssh. I installed denyhosts with yum and then tried to run it with the command line command"sudo /etc/init.d/denyhosts start" but I got the message"Job Failed. See system logs and 'systemctl status' for details [FAILED]"and in the application "services" in the applications menu,t shows an exclamation warning and says that "This unit has failed"
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am just out of curiosity working with honeypot and found there are two way for arpd to route the unused IP to honeypot with blackhole and arp spoofing.Now to test, I am arp spoofing 5 machines from 192.168.100.41 to .45 and also honeypot is monitoring this range too. But I have setup a real machine with webserver in between this range and gave IP address 192.168.100.45.Now logically as arp and honeypot both are monitoring this range so they capture this request as below from log:
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arpd[1690]: arpd_lookup: no entry for 192.168.100.45
arpd[1690]: arpd_send: who-has 192.168.100.45 tell 192.168.100.10
arpd[1690]: arpd_send: who-has 192.168.100.45 tell 192.168.100.10
arpd[1690]: arp reply 192.168.100.45 is-at 08:00:27:00:76:e5
arpd[1690]: arp reply 192.168.100.45 is-at 08:00:27:00:76:e5
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Now arpd is redirecting the traffic to honeypot machine as there is a real system with real MAC address. But from 192.168.200.10 I can also view the webpage of 192.168.100.45 machine. But most of the time it says "Connection Timed out".
Should it be acting like this or it shouldn't be showing me the webpage at all?
I want to create a tunnel from my home computer to a linux server by SSH, then i can use the tunnel as a tcp forwarding proxy(SOCK 5) to access the web via the linux server. But i got "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage" on my home computer, and when i check the "/var/log/secure" in the linux server(fedora), I found: "sshd[17926]: error: connect to xx.xx.xx.xx port 80 failed: Permission denied"
View 14 Replies View RelatedI just installed FC12 and was trying to do the security update, but it encountered an "internal error" and asked me to "report this bug to the distribution's bugtracker" with the details. However, I am not sure exactly what to do. Could someone be kind enough to let me know?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI don't know why but my server is no longer successfully updating its security repositories when I run 'apt-get update' on my system.Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.Did I mess something up? No changes have been made to the server and I ran 'apt-get clean' and that didn't really do much.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm running 11.04 (64 bit) get the following in my syslog
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1) Why is this happening
2) How can it be fixed
3) How can it be avoided
Im using CenOs 5 and have install a mail system(postfix+dovecot),when I trying to enable selinux for enforcing mode and i'm have some issue, the user authentication failed. How can i to fix this problem?
View 2 Replies View RelatedDoes anyone know a method for setting the timeout period for failed logins on Linux RHEL5.x systems? Linux docs say to set the failed login delay paramter in /etc/login.defs to the desired seconds. I did this, but the settings have no effect, ie weather set to 2,4,10, etc, the actuall failed login timeout period(which I verified with a stopwatch), never changes.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have intalled RADIUS server on one machine which has fedora 10. I have installed freeradius-server-2.1.10 on it(server machine IP 10.150.110.42).
I have one more machine with redhat linux on which i have installed pam_radius-1.3.17(client machine IP 10.150.113.4).
I have done the follwoing configuration at both sides
SERVER SIDE.
users file
"vijay" Auth-Type := Local, Cleartext-Password == "123qwe", NAS-IP-Address == "10.150.113.4"
Reply-Message = "Hello, %u"
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Above mentioned is my configuration. when i try to connect client with SSH it is not sending a request for authenticating user to RADIUS server. what else configuration i have to do, or if there are any mistakes in my configuration
how to block any IP address who failed to connect more than 3 ssh?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI was playing around with a script that seems to work relatively for my needs when SSH comms fail - AKA a user or someone attacking. This works. But, how would I add a threshold value? lets say if there are 3 entries, then perform add the IP to iptables as a rule.
Code:
#!/bin/sh
#
# FIREWALL SCRIPT
#
# March 1st, 2011
#
# Purpose:
# Add offending IP from failed SSH connections
# to the iptables (firewall) rules.
#
## Vars:
TIMETHRESHOLD="10" .....
How does one unlock an account when it is locked by too many failed attempts for login?
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