Re: [Mailman-Users] Limiting number of failed login attempts

2015-10-05 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 12:07:25AM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Perhaps a per-user login attempt limit would work for you. Each > (ab)user is different. But I don't think it's a good idea for a > supported feature of Mailman, it's too fragile and it would be an > invitation to an endless s

Re: [Mailman-Users] Limiting number of failed login attempts

2015-10-05 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Aditya Jain writes: > If I block a particular IP address because some disgruntled person > from the organization is trying to brute force, it will block > access for other legitimate users from that organization (because > they have only one IP dedicated to browsing traffic). This is a social

Re: [Mailman-Users] Limiting number of failed login attempts

2015-10-05 Thread Aditya Jain
Hi, On Monday 05 October 2015 04:19 PM, Laura Creighton wrote: > I think that Aditya Jain's problem is that he (she?) He :) > doesn't understand that fail2ban takes a look at where the attackers > are coming from and bans _their_ Host from connecting. He thought > it worked by making his host un

Re: [Mailman-Users] Limiting number of failed login attempts

2015-10-05 Thread Laura Creighton
I think that Aditya Jain's problem is that he (she?) doesn't understand that fail2ban takes a look at where the attackers are coming from and bans _their_ Host from connecting. He thought it worked by making his host unconnectable, which of course will not work. But I could be wrong .. Laura ---

Re: [Mailman-Users] Limiting number of failed login attempts

2015-10-05 Thread Adam McGreggor
On Sun, Oct 04, 2015 at 11:43:55AM +0530, Aditya Jain wrote: > On Sunday 04 October 2015 07:28 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote: > > fail2ban runs on (in this case) the machine on which Mailman's web > > interface runs. It monitors the web server logs and looks for (in this > > case) a minimum number of 401 e