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Revision as of 17:46, 13 April 2016
Contents
Recommended Installs for your Unmanaged Cloud Server
Fail2Ban
Fail2Ban is a python written access prevention tool designed to stop connections to your server after a specified amount of connection attempts. Using iptables, it stops unauthorized SSH, FTP, etc.. attempts from brute-forcing your server.
Installation
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install fail2ban
or
sudo yum update sudo yum install fail2ban
Configuration
cd /etc/fail2ban sudo vim jail.conf
- [https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fail2ban help.ubuntu.com is a great resource on how to configure your fail2ban conf file.
