http://www.debiantutorials.com/prevent-brute-force-attacks-using-fail2ban/ Copy/Paste tutorials for Debian based Linux distros Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:46:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.debiantutorials.com/prevent-brute-force-attacks-using-fail2ban/comment-page-1/#comment-1452 Hervé Tue, 05 Apr 2011 05:48:43 +0000 http://www.debiantutorials.net/?p=329#comment-1452 It is safer to copy the file /etc/fail2ban/jail.conf to /etc/fail2ban/jail.local and modify the latter. By doing this way, you can install new versions of configuration files without losing your changes. It is safer to copy the file /etc/fail2ban/jail.conf to /etc/fail2ban/jail.local and modify the latter.
By doing this way, you can install new versions of configuration files without losing your changes.

]]> http://www.debiantutorials.com/prevent-brute-force-attacks-using-fail2ban/comment-page-1/#comment-1438 Jeff Sun, 02 Jan 2011 11:04:21 +0000 http://www.debiantutorials.net/?p=329#comment-1438 You should make those changes in jail.local instead of jail.conf. If you update fail2ban it will overwrite the jail.conf with the risk of locking yourself out if something went wrong, because fail2ban isn't configured with your ignorelist anymore. You should make those changes in jail.local instead of jail.conf. If you update fail2ban it will overwrite the jail.conf with the risk of locking yourself out if something went wrong, because fail2ban isn’t configured with your ignorelist anymore.

]]> http://www.debiantutorials.com/prevent-brute-force-attacks-using-fail2ban/comment-page-1/#comment-1436 Peter Thu, 23 Dec 2010 01:43:39 +0000 http://www.debiantutorials.net/?p=329#comment-1436 It's also quite easy to write your own rules if you're familiar with Posix regular expressions. This guide ( http://penguinapple.blogspot.com/2010/12/installing-fail2ban-other-step-in.html ) got me started and I wrote a bunch of custom rules to fit my needs. It’s also quite easy to write your own rules if you’re familiar with Posix regular expressions. This guide ( http://penguinapple.blogspot.com/2010/12/installing-fail2ban-other-step-in.html ) got me started and I wrote a bunch of custom rules to fit my needs.

]]> http://www.debiantutorials.com/prevent-brute-force-attacks-using-fail2ban/comment-page-1/#comment-1410 aip Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:53:22 +0000 http://www.debiantutorials.net/?p=329#comment-1410 Good point steve. I've modified the tutorial to show how to do this. Good point steve. I’ve modified the tutorial to show how to do this.

]]> http://www.debiantutorials.com/prevent-brute-force-attacks-using-fail2ban/comment-page-1/#comment-1409 steve Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:14:52 +0000 http://www.debiantutorials.net/?p=329#comment-1409 How about going a little further and showing how to permanently allow an IP so we will be able to ssh to the box and not lock ourself out? How about going a little further and showing how to permanently allow an IP so we will be able to ssh to the box and not lock ourself out?

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