NAME¶
fail2ban - a set of server and client programs to limit brute force
authentication attempts.
DESCRIPTION¶
Fail2Ban consists of a client, server and configuration files to limit brute
force authentication attempts.
The server program
fail2ban-server is responsible for monitoring log
files and issuing ban/unban commands. It gets configured through a simple
protocol by
fail2ban-client, which can also read configuration files
and issue corresponding configuration commands to the server.
For details on the configuration of fail2ban see the jail.conf(5) manual page. A
jail (as specified in jail.conf) couples filters and actions definitions for
any given list of files to get monitored.
For details on the command-line options of fail2ban-server see the
fail2ban-server(1) manual page.
For details on the command-line options and commands for configuring the server
via fail2ban-client see the
fail2ban-client(1) manual page.
For testing regular expressions specified in a filter using the fail2ban-regex
program may be of use and its manual page is
fail2ban-regex(1).
FILES¶
/etc/fail2ban/*
AUTHOR¶
Manual page written by Daniel Black and Yaroslav Halchenko
REPORTING BUGS¶
Report bugs to
https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/issues
COPYRIGHT¶
Copyright © 2013
Copyright of modifications held by their respective authors. Licensed under the
GNU General Public License v2 (GPL).
SEE ALSO¶
fail2ban-server(1) fail2ban-client(1) fail2ban-regex(1) jail.conf(5)