I’ve used fail2ban in the past on Ubuntu, and it was very easy to setup.

Apparently on Debian, there is no /var/log/auth.log, and it does not use iptables, so fail2ban is not seeing the failed login attempts and jailing the purp.

Has anyone set this up successfully before? I see suggestions online to set backend = systemd, but this does not seem to be fixing the issue for me.

    • root@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      10 months ago

      Oooh, good point. I’m not even sure if I should be using this with cert only based auth

      It does usually not make sense to use fail2ban with e.g sshd when only public key authentication or similar is enabled.

  • tvcvt@lemmy.ml
    2·
    10 months ago

    I think you can deal with this by installing either rsyslog or syslog-ng and iptables. They all should be in the repos. Once you’ve go those set up it should supersede the equivalent systemd utilities.

    • root@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      10 months ago

      Thank you, I might give this a try tomorrow. I thought I read something similar, but that it would require you to take care of log rotation as well otherwise they would just grow. Not sure how true that is.

      • tvcvt@lemmy.ml
        2·
        10 months ago

        There’s a utility called logrotate that should take care of the log rotation for you.

        Good luck getting it all set up.