Setup and ignoreip to all your ips in the fail2ban.conf file. On Fri, Aug 13, 2021, 11:25 AM Wayne Sallee <wa...@waynesallee.com> wrote:
> > > -------- Original Message -------- > *Subject: * Re: [Fail2ban-users] newbie - how to montitor but not block > *From: * Nick Howitt <n...@howitts.co.uk> > *To: * Fail2ban-users <fail2ban-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > *CC: * > *Date: * 2021-5-9 03:47 AM > > > > > > On 08/05/2021 22:52, asdffdsa6132 via Fail2ban-users wrote: > >> hello and thanks, i could not find my answer at the website. > >> > >> i want to test fail2ban to protect my openvpn server on opnsense. > >> and i am concerned that i will make some major mistake and lock myself > out. > >> > >> so how can i configre fail2ban to log and not ban? > >> > >> thanks so much, > >> david > >> > > Not quite the right answer but set findtime to 1s and maxretry to > something big. Then it should never ban. > > > > > > I got mine from > https://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/HOWTO_fail2ban_with_OpenVPN but > ahad to adjust it slightly. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Fail2ban-users mailing list > > Fail2ban-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fail2ban-users > > > > > Here is a script that will make it easy to unban yourself when you do get > yourself banned: > > echo "Enter IP # to unban"; read input; for jail in $(fail2ban-client > status | grep 'Jail list:' | sed 's/.*Jail > list://' | sed 's/,//g'); do echo; echo "Jail: $jail"; fail2ban-client > set $jail unbanip $input; done > > Another thing that you can do, is to keep your ban time set to a few > seconds, when testing, then if you get banned, it's > only for a few seconds. > > You can also put a no ban restriction on your ip address. > > Wayne Sallee > wa...@waynesallee.com > http://www.WayneSallee.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Fail2ban-users mailing list > Fail2ban-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fail2ban-users >
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