smtp hack attempts and no IP in logs
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server gets smtp login attacks but firewall cant ban them because there is no IP in logs... like this in var/log/messages:
Mar 13 16:00:05 sunucu saslauthd[1484]: do_auth : auth failure: [user=admin] [service=smtp] [realm=] [mech=pam] [reason=PAM auth error]
Mar 13 16:00:07 sunucu saslauthd[1483]: do_auth : auth failure: [user=admin] [service=smtp] [realm=] [mech=pam] [reason=PAM auth error]
Mar 13 16:00:09 sunucu saslauthd[1485]: do_auth : auth failure: [user=admin] [service=smtp] [realm=] [mech=pam] [reason=PAM auth error]
Mar 13 16:00:11 sunucu saslauthd[1482]: do_auth : auth failure: [user=admin] [service=smtp] [realm=] [mech=pam] [reason=PAM auth error]
Mar 13 16:00:12 sunucu saslauthd[1484]: do_auth : auth failure: [user=admin] [service=smtp] [realm=] [mech=pam] [reason=PAM auth error]
Mar 13 16:00:15 sunucu saslauthd[1482]: do_auth : auth failure: [user=admin] [service=smtp] [realm=] [mech=pam] [reason=PAM auth error]
...
...
Software versions:
Operating system CentOS Linux 7.4.1708
Perl version 5.016003
Path to Perl /usr/bin/perl
BIND version 9.9
Postfix version 2.10.1
Mail injection command /usr/lib/sendmail -t
Apache version 2.4.6
PHP versions 5.4.16, 7.0.10, 7.1.8
Logrotate version 3.8.6
MySQL version 10.1.31-MariaDB
Dovecot IMAP/POP3 Server Version 2.2.10.
Any idea to fix this?
centos dovecot
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server gets smtp login attacks but firewall cant ban them because there is no IP in logs... like this in var/log/messages:
Mar 13 16:00:05 sunucu saslauthd[1484]: do_auth : auth failure: [user=admin] [service=smtp] [realm=] [mech=pam] [reason=PAM auth error]
Mar 13 16:00:07 sunucu saslauthd[1483]: do_auth : auth failure: [user=admin] [service=smtp] [realm=] [mech=pam] [reason=PAM auth error]
Mar 13 16:00:09 sunucu saslauthd[1485]: do_auth : auth failure: [user=admin] [service=smtp] [realm=] [mech=pam] [reason=PAM auth error]
Mar 13 16:00:11 sunucu saslauthd[1482]: do_auth : auth failure: [user=admin] [service=smtp] [realm=] [mech=pam] [reason=PAM auth error]
Mar 13 16:00:12 sunucu saslauthd[1484]: do_auth : auth failure: [user=admin] [service=smtp] [realm=] [mech=pam] [reason=PAM auth error]
Mar 13 16:00:15 sunucu saslauthd[1482]: do_auth : auth failure: [user=admin] [service=smtp] [realm=] [mech=pam] [reason=PAM auth error]
...
...
Software versions:
Operating system CentOS Linux 7.4.1708
Perl version 5.016003
Path to Perl /usr/bin/perl
BIND version 9.9
Postfix version 2.10.1
Mail injection command /usr/lib/sendmail -t
Apache version 2.4.6
PHP versions 5.4.16, 7.0.10, 7.1.8
Logrotate version 3.8.6
MySQL version 10.1.31-MariaDB
Dovecot IMAP/POP3 Server Version 2.2.10.
Any idea to fix this?
centos dovecot
Sorry for lacking information. Dovecot IMAP/POP3 Server Version 2.2.10. Please tell me if need any more information
â Ãnsal Korkmaz
Mar 16 at 13:14
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server gets smtp login attacks but firewall cant ban them because there is no IP in logs... like this in var/log/messages:
Mar 13 16:00:05 sunucu saslauthd[1484]: do_auth : auth failure: [user=admin] [service=smtp] [realm=] [mech=pam] [reason=PAM auth error]
Mar 13 16:00:07 sunucu saslauthd[1483]: do_auth : auth failure: [user=admin] [service=smtp] [realm=] [mech=pam] [reason=PAM auth error]
Mar 13 16:00:09 sunucu saslauthd[1485]: do_auth : auth failure: [user=admin] [service=smtp] [realm=] [mech=pam] [reason=PAM auth error]
Mar 13 16:00:11 sunucu saslauthd[1482]: do_auth : auth failure: [user=admin] [service=smtp] [realm=] [mech=pam] [reason=PAM auth error]
Mar 13 16:00:12 sunucu saslauthd[1484]: do_auth : auth failure: [user=admin] [service=smtp] [realm=] [mech=pam] [reason=PAM auth error]
Mar 13 16:00:15 sunucu saslauthd[1482]: do_auth : auth failure: [user=admin] [service=smtp] [realm=] [mech=pam] [reason=PAM auth error]
...
...
Software versions:
Operating system CentOS Linux 7.4.1708
Perl version 5.016003
Path to Perl /usr/bin/perl
BIND version 9.9
Postfix version 2.10.1
Mail injection command /usr/lib/sendmail -t
Apache version 2.4.6
PHP versions 5.4.16, 7.0.10, 7.1.8
Logrotate version 3.8.6
MySQL version 10.1.31-MariaDB
Dovecot IMAP/POP3 Server Version 2.2.10.
Any idea to fix this?
centos dovecot
server gets smtp login attacks but firewall cant ban them because there is no IP in logs... like this in var/log/messages:
Mar 13 16:00:05 sunucu saslauthd[1484]: do_auth : auth failure: [user=admin] [service=smtp] [realm=] [mech=pam] [reason=PAM auth error]
Mar 13 16:00:07 sunucu saslauthd[1483]: do_auth : auth failure: [user=admin] [service=smtp] [realm=] [mech=pam] [reason=PAM auth error]
Mar 13 16:00:09 sunucu saslauthd[1485]: do_auth : auth failure: [user=admin] [service=smtp] [realm=] [mech=pam] [reason=PAM auth error]
Mar 13 16:00:11 sunucu saslauthd[1482]: do_auth : auth failure: [user=admin] [service=smtp] [realm=] [mech=pam] [reason=PAM auth error]
Mar 13 16:00:12 sunucu saslauthd[1484]: do_auth : auth failure: [user=admin] [service=smtp] [realm=] [mech=pam] [reason=PAM auth error]
Mar 13 16:00:15 sunucu saslauthd[1482]: do_auth : auth failure: [user=admin] [service=smtp] [realm=] [mech=pam] [reason=PAM auth error]
...
...
Software versions:
Operating system CentOS Linux 7.4.1708
Perl version 5.016003
Path to Perl /usr/bin/perl
BIND version 9.9
Postfix version 2.10.1
Mail injection command /usr/lib/sendmail -t
Apache version 2.4.6
PHP versions 5.4.16, 7.0.10, 7.1.8
Logrotate version 3.8.6
MySQL version 10.1.31-MariaDB
Dovecot IMAP/POP3 Server Version 2.2.10.
Any idea to fix this?
centos dovecot
edited Mar 16 at 14:33
Rui F Ribeiro
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asked Mar 15 at 19:01
Ãnsal Korkmaz
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Sorry for lacking information. Dovecot IMAP/POP3 Server Version 2.2.10. Please tell me if need any more information
â Ãnsal Korkmaz
Mar 16 at 13:14
add a comment |Â
Sorry for lacking information. Dovecot IMAP/POP3 Server Version 2.2.10. Please tell me if need any more information
â Ãnsal Korkmaz
Mar 16 at 13:14
Sorry for lacking information. Dovecot IMAP/POP3 Server Version 2.2.10. Please tell me if need any more information
â Ãnsal Korkmaz
Mar 16 at 13:14
Sorry for lacking information. Dovecot IMAP/POP3 Server Version 2.2.10. Please tell me if need any more information
â Ãnsal Korkmaz
Mar 16 at 13:14
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Plain SMTP services per se do not provide authentication. Authenticated SMTP is an euphemism, as usually you have to log in previously via IMAP or POP, to be able to use the SMTP service.
Usually IMAP, and more often POP3 ports open for the Internet at large are brute-forced as an easy way to find weak login/passwords.
However, in the default postfix+dovecot configurations, normally saslauthd
is, for authentication purposes, being invoked by dovecot
, which provides the IMAP/POP3 services.
As such, as you have to look into dovecot
logs to understand what is happening, and have a look at the offending IP addresses.
I think the dovecot
logs are at /var/log/dovecot.log
or something similar (I have not used centOS for a while).
If the logging is not enough for you, you might change dovecot
configurations temporarily as:
Edit /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-logging.conf
or /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
with:
auth_verbose=yes
auth_debug=yes
verbose_ssl=yes
and then service dovecote restart
Also as an advice, it may make more sense providing these services over TLS (pop3s 995/tcp and imaps 993/tcp ), and not in plain form. It will be more secure, and you will get far less attacks.
PS. Please confirm me the name of the configuration files and log files you have got, to edit this answer.
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1 Answer
1
active
oldest
votes
1 Answer
1
active
oldest
votes
active
oldest
votes
active
oldest
votes
up vote
0
down vote
Plain SMTP services per se do not provide authentication. Authenticated SMTP is an euphemism, as usually you have to log in previously via IMAP or POP, to be able to use the SMTP service.
Usually IMAP, and more often POP3 ports open for the Internet at large are brute-forced as an easy way to find weak login/passwords.
However, in the default postfix+dovecot configurations, normally saslauthd
is, for authentication purposes, being invoked by dovecot
, which provides the IMAP/POP3 services.
As such, as you have to look into dovecot
logs to understand what is happening, and have a look at the offending IP addresses.
I think the dovecot
logs are at /var/log/dovecot.log
or something similar (I have not used centOS for a while).
If the logging is not enough for you, you might change dovecot
configurations temporarily as:
Edit /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-logging.conf
or /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
with:
auth_verbose=yes
auth_debug=yes
verbose_ssl=yes
and then service dovecote restart
Also as an advice, it may make more sense providing these services over TLS (pop3s 995/tcp and imaps 993/tcp ), and not in plain form. It will be more secure, and you will get far less attacks.
PS. Please confirm me the name of the configuration files and log files you have got, to edit this answer.
add a comment |Â
up vote
0
down vote
Plain SMTP services per se do not provide authentication. Authenticated SMTP is an euphemism, as usually you have to log in previously via IMAP or POP, to be able to use the SMTP service.
Usually IMAP, and more often POP3 ports open for the Internet at large are brute-forced as an easy way to find weak login/passwords.
However, in the default postfix+dovecot configurations, normally saslauthd
is, for authentication purposes, being invoked by dovecot
, which provides the IMAP/POP3 services.
As such, as you have to look into dovecot
logs to understand what is happening, and have a look at the offending IP addresses.
I think the dovecot
logs are at /var/log/dovecot.log
or something similar (I have not used centOS for a while).
If the logging is not enough for you, you might change dovecot
configurations temporarily as:
Edit /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-logging.conf
or /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
with:
auth_verbose=yes
auth_debug=yes
verbose_ssl=yes
and then service dovecote restart
Also as an advice, it may make more sense providing these services over TLS (pop3s 995/tcp and imaps 993/tcp ), and not in plain form. It will be more secure, and you will get far less attacks.
PS. Please confirm me the name of the configuration files and log files you have got, to edit this answer.
add a comment |Â
up vote
0
down vote
up vote
0
down vote
Plain SMTP services per se do not provide authentication. Authenticated SMTP is an euphemism, as usually you have to log in previously via IMAP or POP, to be able to use the SMTP service.
Usually IMAP, and more often POP3 ports open for the Internet at large are brute-forced as an easy way to find weak login/passwords.
However, in the default postfix+dovecot configurations, normally saslauthd
is, for authentication purposes, being invoked by dovecot
, which provides the IMAP/POP3 services.
As such, as you have to look into dovecot
logs to understand what is happening, and have a look at the offending IP addresses.
I think the dovecot
logs are at /var/log/dovecot.log
or something similar (I have not used centOS for a while).
If the logging is not enough for you, you might change dovecot
configurations temporarily as:
Edit /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-logging.conf
or /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
with:
auth_verbose=yes
auth_debug=yes
verbose_ssl=yes
and then service dovecote restart
Also as an advice, it may make more sense providing these services over TLS (pop3s 995/tcp and imaps 993/tcp ), and not in plain form. It will be more secure, and you will get far less attacks.
PS. Please confirm me the name of the configuration files and log files you have got, to edit this answer.
Plain SMTP services per se do not provide authentication. Authenticated SMTP is an euphemism, as usually you have to log in previously via IMAP or POP, to be able to use the SMTP service.
Usually IMAP, and more often POP3 ports open for the Internet at large are brute-forced as an easy way to find weak login/passwords.
However, in the default postfix+dovecot configurations, normally saslauthd
is, for authentication purposes, being invoked by dovecot
, which provides the IMAP/POP3 services.
As such, as you have to look into dovecot
logs to understand what is happening, and have a look at the offending IP addresses.
I think the dovecot
logs are at /var/log/dovecot.log
or something similar (I have not used centOS for a while).
If the logging is not enough for you, you might change dovecot
configurations temporarily as:
Edit /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-logging.conf
or /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
with:
auth_verbose=yes
auth_debug=yes
verbose_ssl=yes
and then service dovecote restart
Also as an advice, it may make more sense providing these services over TLS (pop3s 995/tcp and imaps 993/tcp ), and not in plain form. It will be more secure, and you will get far less attacks.
PS. Please confirm me the name of the configuration files and log files you have got, to edit this answer.
edited Mar 16 at 14:42
answered Mar 16 at 14:06
Rui F Ribeiro
34.8k1269113
34.8k1269113
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Sorry for lacking information. Dovecot IMAP/POP3 Server Version 2.2.10. Please tell me if need any more information
â Ãnsal Korkmaz
Mar 16 at 13:14