{"id":1621,"date":"2017-06-13T22:01:04","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T16:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pheonixsolutions.com\/blog\/?p=1621"},"modified":"2017-06-13T22:01:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T16:31:04","slug":"install-fail2ban-centos-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pheonixsolutions.com\/blog\/install-fail2ban-centos-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Install Fail2ban on Centos 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

Install Fail2ban on Centos 7<\/h4>\n

Date Posted: 13-06-2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fail2ban is a service used to ban IP address which makes unsuccessful attempts. In this post, we will explain on how to install fail2ban on centos server.<\/p>\n

Implementation:<\/h4>\n

Fail2ban normally available on\u00a0epel\u00a0<\/em> repo. Incase if epel package is not installed then install epel package first. Let’s assume that epel package is already installed.<\/p>\n

Install fail2ban package using yum.<\/p>\n

yum -y install fail2ban<\/code><\/p>\n

Enable the \u00a0service on reboot safe<\/p>\n

<\/code>systemctl enable fail2ban<\/code><\/p>\n

Open the file\u00a0<\/code>\/etc\/fail2ban\/jail.local\u00a0<\/em> and append the below content.<\/p>\n

vi\u00a0\/etc\/fail2ban\/jail.local<\/code><\/p>\n

[DEFAULT]\r\n# Ban hosts for one hour:\r\nbantime = 3600\r\n\r\n# Override \/etc\/fail2ban\/jail.d\/00-firewalld.conf:\r\nbanaction = iptables-multiport\r\n\r\n[sshd]\r\nenabled = true<\/pre>\n
Start the fail2ban service.<\/p>\n
systemctl start fail2ban<\/code><\/p>\n
To view the fail2ban jail list,<\/p>\n
fail2ban-client status<\/code><\/p>\n
The output of the command will be as below.<\/p>\n
Status
\n|- Number of jail: 1
\n`- Jail list: sshd<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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