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Hello
We have a problem on hosting servers.
Apache as mpm-itk.
Installed grsec.
It is not clear for what reason begins to display a message

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grsec: bruteforce prevention initiated against uid 637, banning for 15  minutes
 grsec: bruteforce prevention initiated against uid 663, banning for 15  minutes

User with the specified uid are blocked. As a consequence under these users apache stops working:

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[Fri Sep 02 03:46:26 2011] [warn] (itkmpm: pid=17195 uid=0, gid=664)  itk_post_perdir_config(): setuid(663): Operation not permitted
 [Fri Sep 02 03:46:26 2011] [warn] Couldn't set uid/gid/priority,  closing connection.
 [Fri Sep 02 03:46:28 2011] [warn] (itkmpm: pid=17207 uid=0, gid=664)  itk_post_perdir_config(): setuid(663): Operation not permitted
 [Fri Sep 02 03:46:28 2011] [warn] Couldn't set uid/gid/priority,  closing connection.
 [Fri Sep 02 03:46:32 2011] [warn] (itkmpm: pid=17249 uid=0, gid=664)  itk_post_perdir_config(): setuid(663): Operation not permitted
 [Fri Sep 02 03:46:32 2011] [warn] Couldn't set uid/gid/priority,  closing connection.

Question to developers and all who have faced this problem:
How to avoid blocking users?
What is the principle of trigger bruteforce prevention?
How to setup bruteforce prevention to decrease threshold?
How to set up the lock time for the users?

You can turn on the signal logging to see what is crashing that triggered the bruteforce prevention (the CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_BRUTE option you enabled). The lock time and threshold aren't configurable. You likely need to disable the option for your environment, though I'd still like to see the crash logs first.

-Brad