CSF - Thoughts?

  • Daworm
  • 09/07/09
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Posted: Sun, 2010-02-21 19:38

I'm just looking into a few ways I can increase security on my server a tad. One I've seen people mention is ConfigServer Firewall and I see in updates notes that it now has a tie into Webmin.

Anyone using this and have thoughts on it?


I've been using CSF for about

  • siteomatic
  • 11/12/07
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  • Sun, 2010-02-28 10:25

I've been using CSF for about a year now. Rather handy firewall script. Has MANY other features.

Issues: I have noticed that it has a tendency to block legitimate users via temp blocks on Apache (based on my settings) and also fails to block password guessing on Dovecot (I'm using Centos 5.4).

Certainly worth a try. It's very configurable and all the settings are well documented.