{"id":323,"date":"2011-06-22T14:32:02","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T14:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nixwind.com\/?p=323"},"modified":"2011-06-22T14:32:02","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T14:32:02","slug":"how-to-enable-leech-protection-using-cpanel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nixwind.com\/?p=323","title":{"rendered":"How to Enable Leech Protection using cPanel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leech Protect allows you to prevent users from publicly posting their password to a restricted area of your site. If an user A is given access to a restricted area and he passes the login to user B and user C with different IP’s , leech protect will detect this and block these IP’s. It also can prevent people from attempting to guess a user’s password through repeated guesses.<\/p>\n

1) To protect your website from leeching, click on the “Leech Protect” on the home screen under Security.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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2) Select the folder you wish to protect by clicking on its name.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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3) Enter the number of times a user may login to this folder during a 2 hour period in the text box “Number of Logins Per Username Allowed in a 2-Hour Period”.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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4) Enter the web address of a site you wish to send users to who violate the<\/strong>
\n maximum number of logins.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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5) For enabling email alerts, click on the check box near\u00a0 “Send Email Alert To”.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Enter the email address which the email alerts wants to be sent in the text box near “Send Email Alert To”<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

6) Click the “Disable Compromised Accounts” checkbox for disabling an account that exceeds the maximum number of logins in 2 hours .<\/strong><\/p>\n

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7) Click on Enable button to enable leech protection.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Click on Disable button to disable leech protection.<\/p>\n

8)\u00a0 There is a “Manage Users”\u00a0 button,\u00a0 clicking this button takes you to the “Password Protect Directories”\u00a0 where you can add,edit or delete an user.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Leech Protect allows you to prevent users from publicly posting their password to a restricted area of your site. If an user A is given access to a restricted area and he passes the login to user B and user C with different IP’s , leech protect will detect this and block these IP’s. It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[18,72],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nixwind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nixwind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nixwind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nixwind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nixwind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nixwind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":512,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nixwind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions\/512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nixwind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nixwind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nixwind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}