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Fail2Ban

Nice - Lightweight - Protection to linux box

You can do more than expected with this utility.
Here i am using SSH and FTP setting to protect my bandwidth from script kidies.

Installation

Fail2ban is written in Python, thus no compilation is required. You can even run Fail2ban without installing it.
Following is the installation procedure for the centOS.

yum install fail2ban

Enable fail2ban during system startup. and start it

chkconfig --levels 235 fail2ban on
/etc/init.d/fail2ban start
fail2ban.1245310255.txt.gz · Last modified: 2020/08/10 02:30 (external edit)