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Fail2ban workable configuration required

Posted December 11, 2014 3.3k views

here i installed Fail2Ban firewall and have jail.local configuration file pls update me most workable security concerns configuration setting for jail.local file

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ryanpq June 21, 2016

This tutorial will walk you through the process of setting up fail2ban and the proper use of the jail.local file.

How To Protect SSH with Fail2Ban on Ubuntu 14.04
by Justin Ellingwood
Fail2ban is a daemon that can be run on your server to dynamically block clients that fail to authenticate correctly with your services repeatedly. This can help mitigate the affect of brute force attacks and illegitimate users of your services. In this guide, we'll show demonstrate how to install and configure fail2ban to protect SSH and Nginx on an Ubuntu 14.04 server.
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