fail2ban jail.local

config security

Fail2ban jail configuration for SSH protection

/etc/fail2ban/jail.local

Required Packages

sudo apt install -y fail2ban

Default Settings

Ban time

Duration of ban (e.g. 10m, 1h, 1d)

Find time

Time window for counting failures

Max retry

Enable SSH jail

SSH port

Port name or number

Filter name

Log file path

Path to the log file to monitor

Backend

Ban action

Action to take when banning

[DEFAULT] bantime = 10m findtime = 10m maxretry = 5 [sshd] enabled = true port = ssh filter = sshd