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  chkconfig --add fail2ban
 
  chkconfig --add fail2ban
 
  # chkconfig fail2ban on
 
  # chkconfig fail2ban on
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== Informative sources  ==
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[http://www.santasoft.it/en/blog/20120906_protecting-your-server-attacks-fail2ban Protecting your server from attacks with fail2ban]
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* tips for setting up fail2ban for apache, dovecot, etc
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[http://richardjh.org/blog/blocking-brute-force-attacks-dovecot-centos/ Blocking brute force attacks to Dovecot on CentOS]
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* has clear regex example.  wrongly suggests directly editing jail.conf

Revision as of 17:28, 7 February 2014

configure fail2ban to startup on boot

chkconfig --add fail2ban
# chkconfig fail2ban on

Informative sources

Protecting your server from attacks with fail2ban

  • tips for setting up fail2ban for apache, dovecot, etc

Blocking brute force attacks to Dovecot on CentOS

  • has clear regex example. wrongly suggests directly editing jail.conf