--On Wednesday, August 20, 2008 1:49 PM +0300 Jussi Hirvi greenspot@greenspot.fi wrote:
Fail2ban keeps up blacklists of ip:s that have failed authentication too many times. What is "too many", and the duration of blacklisting can be configured easily in /etc/fail2ban.conf.
The installation is easy, but the configuration looks daunting. There's a bunch of "jails" and it looks like I need to study fail2ban's model to understand what those do.