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ufw + fail2ban on CentOS 6.6?

Posted February 25, 2015 2.7k views

Hi!
How should I install both UFW and fail2ban so they will work well together?

Centos 6.6

Any tips?

Thanks!

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ryanpq June 13, 2016

Unfortunately to the best of my knowledge ufw cannot be installed on CentOS as it is an Ubuntu specific utility. You can however set up fail2ban to work with iptables.

How To Protect SSH with fail2ban on CentOS 6
by Etel Sverdlov
fail2ban provides a way to automatically protect virtual servers from malicious behavior. This tutorial shows you how to download the required EPEL repository needed to install Fail2Ban, copy the Configuration File, configure the fail2ban defaults, and configure the ssh defaults. This tutorial describes the required steps to set up fail2ban on CentOS.
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