On Thu, Feb 9, 2023 at 12:11 PM Marcos A.T. Silva <marcos...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> I really can't find enough words to express my gratitude to you all guys. :)
>
> I think I am finally putting this to work.
>
> All your suggestions and help made me understand, I think, how that works.
>
> I've done the following:
>
> 1) Once, for what I understood, jail.local always overrides jail.conf, I left
> all jails disabled (false) on jail.local. After that, I've renamed jail.conf
> to jail.conf.unused, as Lee suggested.
>
AFAIK jail.conf does not turn anything on; that is the job of
jail.local and/or jail.d/something-here.conf
> 2) Now I created a sshd.conf file in /etc/fail2ban/jail.d and put there only
> the content regarding the sshd jail that was in my jail.local, enabling this
> jail.
>
> 3) Finally I tried to start Fail2Ban and it worked! Thank you!
>
> Well, I noticed (maybe I am wrong, of course) that I need to use both `sudo
> fail2ban-client start` and `sudo systemctl start fail2ban` to make it start
> and be enabled. Is that right?
>
systemctl start fail2ban should have sufficed.
> But I rebooted the server and systemctl status shows me that Fail2Ban is
> still active.
>
> Another question, if possible: now I have only sshd jail active, as per the
> above procedures. Is there a way to check if it is really running?
>
fail2ban-client status sshd
> Thanks again.
>
> Em qui., 9 de fev. de 2023 às 12:13, Mauricio Tavares <raubvo...@gmail.com>
> escreveu:
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 9, 2023 at 10:11 AM L. V. Lammert <l...@omnitec.net> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Thu, 9 Feb 2023, Mauricio Tavares wrote:
>> >
>> > > My suggestion is to find which services you are using and then
>> > > where they are writing their logs to. Take a look at jail.conf (I
>> > > forgot to mention that file). Chances are there are entries for most
>> > > of the services there. Case in point, the ssh services, including
>> > > selinux-ssh, it knows of are
>> > >
>> > It appears that the fail2ban package for Ubuntu 20 is NOT very current.
>> > Much simpler to manage if all of the jails are in separate files in
>> > jail.d, .. not in a mile long jail.conf.
>> >
>> > Also, always confirm the installation of ONLY ssh, until you know what you
>> > need to monitor.
>> >
>> FYI
>>
>> raub@some-debian-box:~$ cat /etc/fail2ban/jail.d/defaults-debian.conf
>> [sshd]
>> enabled = true
>> raub@some-debian-box:~$
>>
>> > Lee
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