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.TH FAIL2BAN "1" "March 2013" "Fail2Ban"
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fail2ban \- a set of server and client programs to limit brute force authentication attempts.
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Fail2Ban consists of a client, server and configuration files to limit
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brute force authentication attempts.
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The server program \fBfail2ban-server\fR is responsible for monitoring
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log files and issuing ban/unban commands. It gets configured through
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a simple protocol by \fBfail2ban-client\fR, which can also read
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configuration files and issue corresponding configuration commands to
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For details on the configuration of fail2ban see the jail.conf(5)
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manual page. A jail (as specified in jail.conf) couples filters and
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actions definitions for any given list of files to get monitored.
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For details on the command-line options of fail2ban-server see the
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fail2ban-server(1) manual page.
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For details on the command-line options and commands for configuring
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the server via fail2ban-client see the fail2ban-client(1) manual page.
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For testing regular expressions specified in a filter using the
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fail2ban-regex program may be of use and its manual page is
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Manual page written by Daniel Black and Yaroslav Halchenko
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Report bugs to https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/issues
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Copyright of modifications held by their respective authors.
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Licensed under the GNU General Public License v2 (GPL).