Portsentry monitors network traffic to detect and respond to port scans and probing attempts in real-time.
For a more detailed introduction, review the HOWTO-Use-Cases documentation
docker run -d --network=host --name portsentry portsentry/portsentry:latest
More docker configuration options available in the HOWTO-Docker.md documentation
sudo apt install curl gpg
echo 'deb https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/portsentry/Debian_13/ /' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/portsentry.list
curl -fsSL https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/portsentry/Debian_13//Release.key | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/portsentry.gpg > /dev/null
sudo apt update
sudo apt install portsentrysudo apt install portsentrysudo apt install curl gpg
echo 'deb https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/portsentry/xUbuntu_24.04/ /' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/portsentry.list
curl -fsSL https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/portsentry/xUbuntu_24.04/Release.key | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/portsentry.gpg > /dev/null
sudo apt update
sudo apt install portsentrysudo apt install portsentrydnf config-manager addrepo --from-repofile=https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/portsentry/Fedora_42/home:portsentry.repo
dnf install portsentry
sudo systemctl enable portsentry
sudo systemctl start portsentrydnf install portsentry
sudo systemctl start portsentrysudo pacman -Sy curl gnupg
curl -fsSL https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/portsentry/Arch/x86_64/home_portsentry_Arch.key -o /tmp/portsentry.key
sudo pacman-key --add /tmp/portsentry.key
KEYID=$(gpg --show-keys /tmp/portsentry.key | grep -A1 "^pub" | tail -n 1 | sed 's/\s*//')
sudo pacman-key --lsign-key "$KEYID"
sudo cat <<EOF >>/etc/pacman.conf
[home_portsentry_Arch]
SigLevel = Required
Server = https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/portsentry/Arch/\$arch/
EOF
sudo pacman -Sy portsentry
sudo systemctl enable portsentry
sudo systemctl start portsentrysudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/portsentry/16.0/home:portsentry.repo
sudo zypper refresh
sudo zypper install portsentry
sudo systemctl enable portsentry
sudo systemctl start portsentrysudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/portsentry/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/home:portsentry.repo
sudo zypper refresh
sudo zypper install portsentry
sudo systemctl enable portsentry
sudo systemctl start portsentrysudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/portsentry/openSUSE_Slowroll/home:portsentry.repo
sudo zypper refresh
sudo zypper install portsentry
sudo systemctl enable portsentry
sudo systemctl start portsentryDownload the portsentry tar archive from the Releases page and extract the tarball in the root directory:
sudo tar --strip-components=1 -C / -xvf portsentry-*.tar.xzOpenBSD, NetBSD and FreeBSD are supported but must currently be compiled manually, see below
Detailed compilation instructions can be found on the HOWTO-Compile page.
The HOWTO-Use-Cases documentation provides an overview of how portsentry can be used
The HOWTO-Use documentation provides detailed installation and usage instructions
The Manual provides details around how Portsentry works and can be configured on the command line
The Portsentry Configuration reference provides details on how to configure Portsentry
The Logfile reference explains how log entries from Portsentry should be interpreted.
All documentation for portsentry is indexed in the docs/README.md.
Please use the Discussions Forums for any support questions or feedback
Website: https://portsentry.xyz
Github: https://github.com/portsentry/portsentry
Docker Hub: https://hub.docker.com/r/portsentry/portsentry