FAIL2BAN(1)                          General Commands Manual                          FAIL2BAN(1)



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 authen‐
       tication 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) man‐
       ual 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 Gen‐
       eral Public License v2 (GPL).

SEE ALSO
       fail2ban-server(1) fail2ban-client(1) fail2ban-regex(1) jail.conf(5)



Fail2Ban                                    March 2013                                FAIL2BAN(1)