Re: [CentOS] Dovecot under brute force attack - nice attacker

2009-06-04 Thread Henry Ritzlmayr
Am Dienstag, den 02.06.2009, 17:31 +0200 schrieb Kai Schaetzl: Henry ritzlmayr wrote on Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:51:23 +0200: -Only the last try gets logged. can't reproduce this. The following was done in one connection to localhost. Jun 2 17:09:10 d01 dovecot-auth:

Re: [CentOS] Dovecot under brute force attack - nice attacker

2009-06-04 Thread Henry Ritzlmayr
Am Dienstag, den 02.06.2009, 14:13 -0700 schrieb Scott Silva: on 6-2-2009 5:51 AM henry ritzlmayr spake the following: Hi List, optimizing the configuration on one of our servers (which was hit by a brute force attack on dovecot) showed an odd behavior. The short story: On one

Re: [CentOS] Dovecot under brute force attack - nice attacker

2009-06-04 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Henry Ritzlmayr wrote on Thu, 04 Jun 2009 08:21:04 +0200: the logs you are referring to are only produced if you enable auth_verbose = yes right? That's possible, I didn't check. In that case and if I recall right I added that directive because I was missing the IP numbers in some log

Re: [CentOS] Dovecot under brute force attack - nice attacker

2009-06-04 Thread Henry Ritzlmayr
Am Donnerstag, den 04.06.2009, 10:31 +0200 schrieb Kai Schaetzl: Henry Ritzlmayr wrote on Thu, 04 Jun 2009 08:21:04 +0200: the logs you are referring to are only produced if you enable auth_verbose = yes right? That's possible, I didn't check. In that case and if I recall right

[CentOS] Dovecot under brute force attack - nice attacker

2009-06-02 Thread henry ritzlmayr
Hi List, optimizing the configuration on one of our servers (which was hit by a brute force attack on dovecot) showed an odd behavior. The short story: On one of our servers an attacker did a brute force attack on dovecot (pop3). Since the attacker closed and reopened the connection after

Re: [CentOS] Dovecot under brute force attack - nice attacker

2009-06-02 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Henry ritzlmayr wrote on Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:51:23 +0200: -Only the last try gets logged. can't reproduce this. The following was done in one connection to localhost. Jun 2 17:09:10 d01 dovecot-auth: pam_unix(dovecot:auth): check pass; user unknown Jun 2 17:09:10 d01 dovecot-auth:

Re: [CentOS] Dovecot under brute force attack - nice attacker

2009-06-02 Thread Scott Silva
on 6-2-2009 5:51 AM henry ritzlmayr spake the following: Hi List, optimizing the configuration on one of our servers (which was hit by a brute force attack on dovecot) showed an odd behavior. The short story: On one of our servers an attacker did a brute force attack on dovecot