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Clearing a Brute Force Lockout Record from WHM on Apache - this requires root access to the server.

1. SSH into the server with ROOT access
2. Open the MySQL Prompt (type mysql + enter)
3. From the SQL Prompt, run the following:
   
   mysql> use cphulkd;
   mysql> DELETE FROM `brutes` WHERE `IP`='xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx';
   mysql> quit;