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ESXi – Get authentication attemps per IP address from the logs
Dec 13, 2021 · 1 min read ·
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If you need to get a view on authentication attemps on an ESXi and to order by IP address and attemps counts:
1grep -Eo "Connection from [^ ]* " $(ls -rt /var/log/auth.*) | awk '{print $NF}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr
And you will get something like:
1156 172.16.25.23 216 172.16.25.32 31 172.16.52.2
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Password factory
Ludovic Rivallain Jan 3, 2017 · 1 min read ·
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A quick tip to easily generate random password from a bash command line.
Add the following lines to your bashrc file:
1alias genalphanumpasswd='tr -cd '\''[:alnum:]'\'' < /dev/urandom | fold -w30 | head -n1' 2alias genpasswd='tr -cd '\''[:graph:]'\'' < …
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