Hi, The IP 114.80.162.60 has just been banned by Fail2Ban after 6 attempts against pam-generic. Here are more information about 114.80.162.60: % [whois.apnic.net node-5] % Whois data copyright terms http://www.apnic.net/db/dbcopyright.html inetnum: 114.80.0.0 - 114.95.255.255 netname: CHINANET-SH descr: CHINANET SHANGHAI PROVINCE NETWORK descr: China Telecom descr: No.31,jingrong street descr: Beijing 100032 country: CN admin-c: WWQ4-AP tech-c: WWQ4-AP remarks: service provider status: ALLOCATED PORTABLE mnt-by: APNIC-HM mnt-lower: MAINT-CHINANET mnt-lower: MAINT-CHINANET-SH changed: hm-changed@apnic.net 20080514 source: APNIC person: Weng Wen Qian address: Room 2405,357 Songlin Road,Shanghai 200122 country: CN phone: +86-21-68405784 fax-no: +86-21-50623458 e-mail: wengwq@online.sh.cn nic-hdl: WWQ4-AP mnt-by: MAINT-CHINANET-SH changed: ip-admin@mail.online.sh.cn 20050403 source: APNIC Lines containing IP:114.80.162.60 in /var/log/auth.log Mar 3 06:40:50 mos sshd[15693]: User root from 114.80.162.60 not allowed because not listed in AllowUsers Mar 3 06:40:50 mos sshd[15693]: pam_unix(sshd:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=114.80.162.60 user=root Mar 3 06:40:52 mos sshd[15693]: Failed password for invalid user root from 114.80.162.60 port 36771 ssh2 Mar 3 06:40:55 mos sshd[15726]: Invalid user db2inst1 from 114.80.162.60 Mar 3 06:40:55 mos sshd[15726]: pam_unix(sshd:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=114.80.162.60 Mar 3 06:40:57 mos sshd[15726]: Failed password for invalid user db2inst1 from 114.80.162.60 port 40494 ssh2 Mar 3 06:41:00 mos sshd[15728]: User root from 114.80.162.60 not allowed because not listed in AllowUsers Mar 3 06:41:00 mos sshd[15728]: pam_unix(sshd:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=114.80.162.60 user=root Mar 3 06:41:02 mos sshd[15728]: Failed password for invalid user root from 114.80.162.60 port 41594 ssh2 Mar 3 06:41:06 mos sshd[15731]: Invalid user prueba from 114.80.162.60 Mar 3 06:41:06 mos sshd[15731]: pam_unix(sshd:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=114.80.162.60 Mar 3 06:41:07 mos sshd[15731]: Failed password for invalid user prueba from 114.80.162.60 port 42606 ssh2 Mar 3 06:41:11 mos sshd[15733]: User bin from 114.80.162.60 not allowed because not listed in AllowUsers Mar 3 06:41:11 mos sshd[15733]: pam_unix(sshd:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=114.80.162.60 user=bin Mar 3 06:41:12 mos sshd[15733]: Failed password for invalid user bin from 114.80.162.60 port 43619 ssh2 Mar 3 06:41:16 mos sshd[15735]: Invalid user postgres from 114.80.162.60 Mar 3 06:41:16 mos sshd[15735]: pam_unix(sshd:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=114.80.162.60 Regards, Fail2Ban