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Postfix ban failed logins script

  By cheesefather | August 19, 2016 - 9:37 am |
2 Comments

Fail2ban hasn’t been working for me, I still have people running brute force attacks on my Postfix server, so I though I’d rig up something myself.

This consists of a bash script that identifies multiple failures and bans them, run on cron every 10 minutes. It checks for both smtp and pop/imap login failures.

#!/bin/sh
# postfix ban failed login ips
# get all failed ip addresses into files
cat /var/log/maillog | grep "authentication failed" | grep -Eo "([0-9]{1,3}[\.]){3}[0-9]{1,3}" > ~admin/mail_fail_smtp
cat /var/log/maillog | grep "auth failed" | grep -Eo "rip=([0-9]{1,3}[\.]){3}[0-9]{1,3}" > ~admin/mail_fail_imap
find ~admin/mail_fail_imap -type f -exec sed -i 's/rip=//g' {} \;
# only get over 5 fails (change the limit= part to change)
sort ~admin/mail_fail_imap | uniq -cd | awk -v limit=5 '$1 > limit{print $2}' > ~admin/mail_fail_imap_over5
sort ~admin/mail_fail_smtp | uniq -cd | awk -v limit=5 '$1 > limit{print $2}' > ~admin/mail_fail_smtp_over5
# read through files and add IP to hosts.deny if not there already
while read p; do
if grep $p /etc/hosts.deny; then
echo $p " already added"
else
echo ALL: $p >> /etc/hosts.deny
fi
done < ~admin/mail_fail_smtp_over5
while read p; do
if grep $p /etc/hosts.deny; then
echo $p " already added"
else
echo ALL: $p >> /etc/hosts.deny
fi
done < ~admin/mail_fail_imap_over5
# clean up
rm -f ~admin/mail_fail_smtp
rm -f ~admin/mail_fail_imap
rm -f ~admin/mail_fail_smtp_over5
rm -f ~admin/mail_fail_imap_over5

Then added to crontab:

*/10 * * * * /home/admin/postfix_ban_ips.sh > /dev/null

And just in case the localhost fails and is unintentionally blocked (this is quicker than filtering it out above):

echo "ALL: 127.0.0.1" >> /etc/hosts.allow

dmraid error reporting by email

  By cheesefather | September 9, 2011 - 1:17 pm |
4 Comments

dmraid is a software raid/fakeraid/onboard raid tool.

As far as I can tell, the only error reporting that dmraid does is by hooking into logwatch – which emails me a very long file I don’t often read and I would like to know immediately if my raid array is degraded.

This works for me on CentOS 5.6 with dmraid installed – no guarantees on other flavours/combinations. My dmraid version is dmraid-1.0.0.rc13-63.el5. I haven’t tested the output from other versions of dmraid, but it would be pretty trivial to update the script if they are different (or your path is different).

So what we are going to do is write a simple shell script that checks the array status and emails if there is a problem. Then we run the script every 15 (or whatever) minutes.

The dmraid needs to be run as root, so you might as well su - for the whole of this.

To create the file just vi /raid_status.sh, hit i to insert and paste this:

#!/bin/sh
# check raid status and email if not ok
STATUS=`/sbin/dmraid -s | grep "status"`
if [ "$STATUS" != "status : ok" ]
then
/sbin/dmraid -s | mail -s "RAID ERROR ON `hostname`: $STATUS" your@email.com
fi

Hit Esc, ZZ to save, then make the file executable:

chmod 755 /raid_status.sh

Now add it to cron so that it runs regularly:

crontab -e

…and insert the line (i to insert – Esc, ZZ to save):

00,15,30,45 * * * * /raid_status.sh

Voila! dmraid with email error reporting.