** Description changed: - The default install of fail2ban in Xenial has "/etc/fail2ban/jail.conf" option "backend=auto", which watches "/var/log/auth.log", which in 16.04 is an empty file on the default configuration of sshd (it logs verbosely to journalctl). + The default install of fail2ban has "/etc/fail2ban/jail.conf" option "backend=auto", which watches "/var/log/auth.log", which in 16.04 is an empty file on the default configuration of sshd (it logs verbosely to journalctl). My opinion is that fail2ban ought to have a working default configuration for the default jail. + + Obviously Ubuntu is following Debian on this, relevant Debian bug: + https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=770171
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