If a brute force attack meets this number of attempts, the system locks the account, regardless of the attackers’ IP addresses.ĬPHulk locks the account for one minute for each attempt that you allow with this setting. Maximum Failures by Account - The maximum number of failures that cPHulk allows per account within the Brute Force Protection Period (in minutes) time range. If several attackers attempt to log in, and they reach the account’s Maximum Failures by Account value within this period, cPHulk classifies this as a brute force attempt.ĬPHulk blocks logins from any IP addresses to that account, regardless of the attackers’ IP address or addresses.Įnter a value between 1 and 1,440 for this setting.
You must click Save to change this setting.When you disable cPHulk, existing account locks will remain. Username-based protection tracks login attempts for user accounts. Set the toggle to On to enable the Username-based Protection setting. Username-based Protection - Whether to enable the username-based protection settings. You can configure the following Configuration Settings options: Username-based protection Therefore, the system disables the UseDNS setting when you enable cPHulk. This allows the attacker to perform a brute force attack against the server with unlimited login attempts. If an attacker spoofs a DNS pointer record to impersonate a trusted hostname, the UseDNS setting and cPHulk’s whitelist will conflict.cPHulk also requests authentication information from the PAM to determine whether a login attempt could be a brute force attack.
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The UseDNS setting sends the hostname to the Password Authentication Module (PAM), which ships with cPanel & WHM, for SSH session authentication. By default, your server sets the UseDNS setting to enabled in the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file.
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