[Dovecot] Configure unsuccessful login attempts

Pascal Volk user+dovecot at localhost.localdomain.org
Thu Jun 3 13:58:32 EEST 2010


On 06/03/2010 12:55 PM Greg Pearson wrote:
> Hi,
> using PAM, how can I configure how many attempts a user can make to 
> connect, and if exceeding a certain number, block him for a specified 
> amount of time?
> 
> Any idea what the defaults are?

You could use fail2ban, see also: http://wiki.dovecot.org/HowTo/Fail2Ban


Regards,
Pascal
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