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I noticed that CSF (and cpanel) does not seem to detect a direct console login.

Is this even technically possible to do?

I guess it's not going through sshd so that was is not possible
- but what about just general root login detection via some basic layer in linux?

Oh wait, I know, I'll just add it to .bashrc for root - nevermind!

For the 'High 5 minute load average alert' email notification, can you add the SHOW FULL PROCESSLIST from MySQL?

Thanks!
Frank

I guess it's impossible to rate limit connections via CSF because it would require kernel changes but could a feature be implemented to limit (inbound) connections per IP range instead of just blocking it outright as a sort of throttle?

Hi there -

Is it possible to implement something like expiring blocked IPs automatically based on user-specified criteria such as originating country?

For example, I want US-based IP blocks to expire in 60 minutes and China-based IP blocks to expire in 12 hours.

That would go a long way to easing the support demands of false-positive IP blocks while not sacrificing much in the way of...

Just a thought for the fantastic CSF server security check

Maybe scan my.cnf and if skip-networking doesn't appear at the start of a line, suggest that if they do not require external mysql access to add that line?

I would bet 90% of whm/cpanel installs do not use anything except local sockets so no sense in having a security hole by having mysql listen to tcp.

Hi,
Can you either add a forum section we can subscribe to for CSF new versions or built into CSF itself please?

Many thanks

Hi,

This is partially a duplicate of Release date in changelog + Version number in upgrade log. The version number was added to the update script, but it is still not in the changelog.

Would it be possible to get the release date included in the changelog as well? Something like this? (But better formatted. The BB software is making it really tough to get pretty looking text.)

5.43 - 11.12.13...

Hello,
is it possible to ad een messenger feature so that on attack/block/abuse/etc... beside mail to send a messenger (msn, icq,)..
if possible ad this feature with a multi select option to choose what messages you whant to receive..

Would be great to have CSF support UI Integration for the Interworx control panel!
Any plans for this?

I searched for an answer to this question with no success.

I have another server running Fail2ban. When an IP is blocked, the alert email includes WHOIS information for that IP address (which usually includes the ABUSE contact). My email client parses that message and allows me to send a message to any address mentioned by just clicking on it.
This makes it very easy to forward abuse reports to...

Hello,

Is this possible to receive an alert for a successful FTP login?
The alert should be issued only once per day and per IP.
Having this feature would allow to quickly detect cases where the FTP
credentials are stolen (trojan etc...).

Also could the SSH successful login alert be issued only once per day and per IP?
This would be more useful.

Thank you.

Hi Jonathan,
thanks a lot for the new option for the resellers.

I have a doubt, how we can tweak the email that we receive when an IP was unblocked by a reseller?
I like to read the info on how the IP was blocked that usually appears on CSF like this:
DENY 178.238.232.158 * inout 23h 47m 19s lfd - (mod_security) mod_security triggered by 178.238.232.158...

Hello,

whe are using CSF on our Cpanel servers and whe are verry happy with it.
Whe have a lot of resellers on our systems.
It would be nice to give the resellers some privilages on CSF (lets see, remove a block for one of there clients).

also can you create a feature so that clients can unlock them selfs..
for instance user is locked, goes to a special website / url .. answers his personal...

hi,

an other suggestion...

the use of iptables-save and iptables-restore for large rules set in iptables...
iptables-save dump all rules set in a file that iptables use as-is
iptables-restore can only take the dump file and map it back i memory for iptables in one step witch is really good, for example, server reboot.

of course the dump file has to rewrite every time a rules chain in...

Hi,
here an other sugestion.. will be easier for me to explain it like this

#exim
if (($lgfile eq $config{SMTPAUTH_LOG}) and ($line =~ /.*\ .*A\=login\:(?: +\@( +)).*\ .*/)) {
return ( Illegal FROM by Auth ,$1, smtp , 10 , 0:65535 , 1 );
}

assume that SMTPAUTH_LOG = /var/log/exim/mainlog

regex will return relay ip if the domain of the user name from AUTH doesn't match the FROM in the...

I was wondering if the developers of this fine script would consider the option of including iotop output with the other load alert reports.

A lot of times when we get load alerts it's because of disk IO and not process CPU usage, so this would really help us track things down.

I know there is a LOAD_ACTION value which allows you to execute a custom script on the high load event, but whenever...

i just wanted to know if csf gonna be able to manage ebtables sooner or later as it's now include in centos 5.6+

thanks

Hi Jonathan,
just to let you know that examples on how to set connlimit are missing, from the readme.txt file:
The protection can only be applied to the TCP protocol.

Syntax for the CONNLIMIT setting:

PORTFLOOD is a comma separated list of:
port;limit

So, a setting of PORTFLOOD = 22;5,80;20 means:

Sergio

Hi. I would like ifis possible to run a script every time when a successfully login in whm/cpanel is detected. Why this?
I am running a verification between ip's (registration, ftp, cpanel to detect fraud accounts). So to take like arg $1 the ip logged into cPanel and my script is checking country code for last ftp access,ip from registration, for that account and if country is different to...

Hello,

is it possible to only sent the abuse message's to a other @mail address.
whe have a sepperate mailbox for al the CSF messages, but now al the CSF messages gets in to this mailbox incl. the abuse messages.

Whe whant the abuse messages directly to our Security Officer..
if not possible now, can je implement this i a newer version..