cpHulk : It’s a Brute Force Protection system in a WHM/cPanel server.

By enabling this feature from the WHM we can protect the server from unwanted login attempts.

In this article I am explaining the steps to whitelist your IP address on cPanel’s cphulkBrute Force Protection system.

We can simply configure the cpHulk from the WHM panel. I got the below pasted error when I checked one server which has cPanel login issue with a client.

Error details:

# tailf /usr/local/cpanel/logs/error_log
Duplicate logaccess:  at cpsrvd-ssl line 3000
        main::badpass('faillog', 'brute force attempt (user root) has locked out IP xxx.xxx.xxx.xx...', 'skip_hulk', 1, 'msg_code', 'invalid_login') called at cpsrvd-ssl line 5790
        main::connect_cphulkd() called at cpsrvd-ssl line 5255
        main::handle_form_login() called at cpsrvd-ssl line 1131
        main::handle_one_connection() called at cpsrvd-ssl line 996
Duplicate logaccess:  at cpsrvd-ssl line 3000
        main::badpass('faillog', 'brute force attempt (user brightpub) has locked out IP xxx.xxx.xxx.xx...', 'skip_hulk', 1, 'msg_code', 'invalid_login') called at cpsrvd-ssl line 5790
        main::connect_cphulkd() called at cpsrvd-ssl line 5255
        main::handle_form_login() called at cpsrvd-ssl line 1131
        main::handle_one_connection() called at cpsrvd-ssl line 996

Do not worry about that, here is a simple script to Whitelist the IP address on cpHulk service.

/scripts/cphulkdwhitelist

Usage:

/scripts/cphulkdwhitelist IP-Address

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You can simply white-list the IP address on cpHulk from the WHM control panel itself. Here is the steps to White-list and Black-list IP in cpHulked from WHM.

First Step: Login to WHM panel.

Second Step: Go to,

Home >> Security Center >> cPHulk Brute Force Protection

Third Step: Select “White/Black list management“

From there, you can see the options to White/Black list IPs quickly. There is also an option to edit the entries 🙂

That’s it!

 

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