Source: pam-shield Section: admin Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian QA Group Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 8), libgdbm-dev, libpam0g-dev, autoconf, automake (>= 1.11), libtool Standards-Version: 3.9.3.0 Homepage: http://github.com/jtniehof/pam_shield Package: libpam-shield Architecture: any Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.7.2) Suggests: iproute2, iptables, ufw Description: locks out remote attackers trying password guessing In certain situations it is not possible to use host based authentication and here pam-shield comes in use. . It locks out brute-force password crackers using null-route or iptables rules.