enahs

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  • enahs commented,

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    3. SU as root - incorrect Password

    OK - I found out that it is cPHulk Brute Force Protection causing this issue. Question now is why was it doing this when I have my IP whitelisted!? I mean I could log into everything including cPan...

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    SU as root - incorrect Password

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    I think I just finished searching the entire internet for an answer to this problem :) A while back I did as best practices recommends and made it so that the root account cannot SSH into our serv...

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  • enahs commented,

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    3. cPanel / WHM Login is Invalid

    [quote="cPanelMichael, post: 1736761">This is not accurate. SFTP is essentially FTP over SSH, and SFTP configuration changes are also made in the SSH configuration file (/etc/ssh/sshd_config). That...

  • enahs commented,

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    [quote="PascM, post: 1736441">There shouldn't be a problem between SSH and SFTP those are 2 different protocols you are talking about. Great! Thanks for all the replies. I am going to lockdown SSH...

  • enahs commented,

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    3. cPanel / WHM Login is Invalid

    [quote="PascM, post: 1736062">That's correct, what I said previously works with ssh password authorization = no Meaning you need to log on using ssh Keys Edit: [url=http://prntscr.com/4pkdbh]Scr...

  • enahs commented,

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    3. cPanel / WHM Login is Invalid

    Yes, it's not allowing the root user to log into SSH now as I know I am typing the password correctly and it is stating "Access Denied". I am just going by your description as to what should happen...

  • enahs commented,

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    3. cPanel / WHM Login is Invalid

    [quote="PascM, post: 1735882">Hi, That's why you want the "root" not to be able to connect but instead you can create an other user and then su root, that way most attacks to "root" would stop the...

  • enahs commented,

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    3. cPanel / WHM Login is Invalid

    [quote="cPanelMichael, post: 1735952">Hello :) The following document is a good place to start: How To Secure SSH Also, this thread is helpful: Increasing Security - SSH Hardening Thank you. ...

  • enahs commented,

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    3. cPanel / WHM Login is Invalid

    [quote="PascM, post: 1735882">Hi, That's why you want the "root" not to be able to connect but instead you can create an other user and then su root, that way most attacks to "root" would stop the...

  • enahs commented,

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    2. Account Administration
    3. cPanel / WHM Login is Invalid

    [quote="PascM, post: 1735592">Well root should be disabled either way for security reasons. I'm not sure I follow you, if you are using an IP-based brute force attack prevention why would you want...