I usually don’t post highly technical stuff on my blog but this one was entertaining in a geek sort of way. I was tired of seeing script kiddies try this brute force attack on my server. I googled the heck out of it and tried some of the suggestions but nothing was working so I engineered my own fix. Here it is.
rename the /usr/share/phpMyAdmin/scripts/setup.php script to something else. Replace it with the following code:
<?PHP
include("stopit.html");
?>
Create a file in that directory called stopit.html with the following code:
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Stop It!</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<H1 ALIGN=CENTER>Stop It!</H1>
<P ALIGN=CENTER>
<IMG SRC="stopit.jpg">
</P>
</BODY>
</HTML>
Here is my stopit.jpg
