man fail2ban () - Ban IPs that make too many password failure

NAME

fail2ban - Ban IPs that make too many password failure

SYNOPSIS

fail2ban [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION

Fail2Ban v0.6.0 reads log file that contains password failure report and bans the corresponding IP addresses using firewall rules.

-b
start in background
-d
start in debug mode
-c <FILE>
read configuration file FILE
-p <FILE>
create PID lock in FILE
-h
display this help message -i <IP(s)> IP(s) to ignore
-k
kill a currently running instance -r <VALUE> allow a max of VALUE password failures [maxfailures]
-t <TIME>
ban IP for TIME seconds [bantime]
-f <TIME>
lifetime in seconds of failed entry [findtime] -e <NAMEs> enable sections listed in NAMEs (coma or colon separated)
-v
verbose. Use twice for greater effect
-V
print software version

FILES

/etc/fail2ban.conf, /etc/default/fail2ban

AUTHOR

Original fail2ban by Cyril Jaquier <lostcontrol@users.sourceforge.net>.

Modified and packaged for Debian by

- Yaroslav O. Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>.

Sponsored for Debian by

- Barak A. Pearlmutter <barak@cs.nuim.ie>.

REPORTING BUGS

Please report Debian related bugs via Debian bug tracking system http://www.debian.org/Bugs/

Report bugs to <lostcontrol@users.sourceforge.net>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2004 Cyril Jaquier

Copyright of modifications held by their respective authors.

Licensed under the GNU General Public License v2 (GPL).

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