On Mon, March 9, 2015 13:11, John Plemons wrote: > Been working on fail2ban, and trying to make it work with plain Jane > install of Centos 7 > > Machine is a HP running 2 Quad core Xeons, 16 gig or ram and 1 plus TB > of disk space. Very generic and vanilla. > > Current available epel repo version is fail2ban-0.9.1 > > Looking at the log file, fail2ban starts and stops fine, there isn't > output though showing any login attempts being restricted. > > 2015-03-09 12:54:37,930 fail2ban.server [14805]: INFO > Stopping all jails > 2015-03-09 12:54:37,931 fail2ban.server [14805]: INFO > Exiting Fail2ban > 2015-03-09 12:54:38,338 fail2ban.server [16678]: INFO > Changed logging target to /var/log/fail2ban.log for Fail2ban v0.9.1 > 2015-03-09 12:54:38,341 fail2ban.database [16678]: INFO > Connected to fail2ban persistent database > '/var/lib/fail2ban/fail2ban.sqlite3' > > I copied jail.conf and added the edited jail.local to the directory > /etc/fail2ban/ > > This is about as far as I have gotten with searches on how to > configure > with Centos 7. > > Any help would be welcome. What am I missing? > > john > This is what I have for ssh in jail.conf [ssh-iptables] enabled = true filter = sshd action = iptables[name=SSH, port=ssh, protocol=tcp] sendmail-whois[name=SSH, dest=x@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, sender=x@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, sendername=Fail2Ban] logpath = /var/log/secure maxretry = 5 And this (among many others) is what we have in /etc/fail2ban/action.d cat /etc/fail2ban/action.d/iptables.conf # Fail2Ban configuration file # # Author: Cyril Jaquier # # [INCLUDES] before = iptables-blocktype.conf [Definition] # Option: actionstart # Notes.: command executed once at the start of Fail2Ban. # Values: CMD # actionstart = iptables -N fail2ban-<name> iptables -A fail2ban-<name> -j RETURN iptables -I <chain> -p <protocol> --dport <port> -j fail2ban-<name> # Option: actionstop # Notes.: command executed once at the end of Fail2Ban # Values: CMD # actionstop = iptables -D <chain> -p <protocol> --dport <port> -j fail2ban-<name> iptables -F fail2ban-<name> iptables -X fail2ban-<name> # Option: actioncheck # Notes.: command executed once before each actionban command # Values: CMD # actioncheck = iptables -n -L <chain> | grep -q 'fail2ban-<name>[ \t]' # Option: actionban # Notes.: command executed when banning an IP. Take care that the # command is executed with Fail2Ban user rights. # Tags: See jail.conf(5) man page # Values: CMD # actionban = iptables -I fail2ban-<name> 1 -s <ip> -j <blocktype> # Option: actionunban # Notes.: command executed when unbanning an IP. Take care that the # command is executed with Fail2Ban user rights. # Tags: See jail.conf(5) man page # Values: CMD # actionunban = iptables -D fail2ban-<name> -s <ip> -j <blocktype> [Init] # Default name of the chain # name = default # Option: port # Notes.: specifies port to monitor # Values: [ NUM | STRING ] Default: # port = ssh # Option: protocol # Notes.: internally used by config reader for interpolations. # Values: [ tcp | udp | icmp | all ] Default: tcp # protocol = tcp # Option: chain # Notes specifies the iptables chain to which the fail2ban rules should be # added # Values: STRING Default: INPUT chain = INPUT HTH -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos