Disable cPHulk Brute Force Protection

Cpanel Servers have a bruceforce attack detection module called cPHulk Brute Force Protection. In case your server have another bruteforce detection software like ConfigServer Security & Firewall, you may need to disable cPHulk Brute Force Protection as you don’t need 2 software for same purpose running on the server.

To disable cPHulk Brute Force Protection, run

/usr/local/cpanel/bin/cphulk_pam_ctl --disable

You can also use

https://SERVER_IP:2087/scripts2/doautofixer?autofix=disable_cphulkd

Or login to WHM, Go to

WHM Home > Security Center > cPHulk Brute Force Protection

click OFF button to disable cPHulk.

disable cPHulk

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