authfail

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Last Update: 2014-06-23

authfail is a tool for adding IP addresses of those who attempt to log into a system,
causing authentication failures in auth.log, to an ACL. It reads data from auth.log in
real time and adds the IP into netfilter with a DROP/REJECT policy.

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