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It takes a few commands to get going though, and I guess it doesn't run as a normal service?
It takes a few commands to get going though, and I guess it doesn't run as a normal service?


   🌵 m@bitpost [~/development/thedigitalage/rad-scripts]sudo fail2ban-client add mdmjail  
   🌵 m@bitpost [~]sudo fail2ban-client add mdmjail  
  Added jail mdmjail
  Added jail mdmjail
   🌵 m@bitpost [~/development/thedigitalage/rad-scripts] sudo fail2ban-client start mdmjail
   🌵 m@bitpost [~] sudo fail2ban-client start mdmjail
  Jail started
  Jail started
   🌵 m@bitpost [~/development/thedigitalage/rad-scripts] sudo fail2ban-client set mdmjail addlogpath /var/log/messages
   🌵 m@bitpost [~] sudo fail2ban-client set mdmjail addlogpath /var/log/messages
  Current monitored log file(s):
  Current monitored log file(s):
  `- /var/log/messages
  `- /var/log/messages
   🌵 m@bitpost [~/development/thedigitalage/rad-scripts]sudo fail2ban-client status
   🌵 m@bitpost [~]sudo fail2ban-client status
  Status
  Status
  |- Number of jail: 1
  |- Number of jail: 1
  `- Jail list: mdmjail
  `- Jail list: mdmjail

Revision as of 20:51, 16 November 2017

fail2ban watches log files for misbehavior, and creates firewall rules, to stop things like brute force ssh attempts.

It takes a few commands to get going though, and I guess it doesn't run as a normal service?

 🌵 m@bitpost [~]sudo fail2ban-client add mdmjail 
Added jail mdmjail
 🌵 m@bitpost [~] sudo fail2ban-client start mdmjail
Jail started
 🌵 m@bitpost [~] sudo fail2ban-client set mdmjail addlogpath /var/log/messages
Current monitored log file(s):
`- /var/log/messages
 🌵 m@bitpost [~]sudo fail2ban-client status
Status
|- Number of jail:	1
`- Jail list:	mdmjail