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How to use FAIL2BAN to protect SSH

Do Son June 22, 2017 2 minutes read
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Fail2Ban is an intrusion prevention software framework that protects computer servers from brute-force attacks. Written in the Python programming language, it is able to run on POSIX systems that have an interface to a packet-control system or firewall installed locally, for example, iptables or TCP Wrapper.

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On this post, i’m going to guide you how to use Fail2ban to protect SSH.

First you need to install Fail2ban is :

 apt-get install fail2ban

After installing Fail2ban, to starts to work immediately, you need to add the desired settings. All configuration is stored in a/etc/fail2ban/jail.conf file

We need to change the section of the SSH :

[ssh]
 
enabled  = true
port     = ssh
filter   = sshd
logpath  = /var/log/auth.log
maxretry = 10
findtime = 3600
bantime  = 86400

Description:

maxretry – the maximum number of incorrect connections during specified parameter findtime ;
findtime – Time in the log-file, for which the analysis of the number of incorrect connections. Calculated in seconds;
bantime – blocking time in seconds;

and restart Fail2ban is :

 service fail2ban restart

Now, after 10 wrong password is entered for an hour address will be blocked for a day.

gets the current status of the server

fail2ban–client status 
And to know the statistics for blocked clients for each service with the command:
fail2ban–client status service_name

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