Implement fail2ban on Debian

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Introduction

A permanently connected machine is a target of choice for external attacks. Although the use of a firewall greatly reduces risk, it is necessary to control access protected by password one too many connection requests failed, in the case of attacks by brute forc ou bruteforce

The to fail2ban allows to monitor the activity of certain services, such as SSH or Apache log. When an excessive number of failed authentications fail2ban will generate an IPTables rule, this rule will aim to disallow connections from likely to be an attacker IP address for a specified period.

This article is designed to introduce the service 2ban and its configuration. This article is not exhaustive on the configuration settings of the service, it is your responsibility to check the consistency of the configuration with your system.

Prerequisi

One of the prerequisite essential is to preserve its system as up-to-date as possible

 apt-get update
 apt-get upgrade 

Keeping your Debian system up-to-date, make sure you have a list of the official repositories. You can find a list of the available at Ikoula repositories and installation instructions a this address.

Warning : Before making any changes to your system always plan a backup of your files in the event of improper handling.
On a production server, be sure to perform these operations during off-peak hours to minimize the impact of your actions.

Implementati

Installation fail 2ban

Install fail 2ban, who is normally present in the official Debian packages

 apt-get install fail2ban 

Service fail2ban is now installed and started.

Configuration file

The configuration fail2ban is retained in the file /etc/fail2ban. The default configuration is defined in the file jail.confThis file is automatically changed when the updates to the service, so it is recommended to perform the configuration of the service fail2ban in a local settings file jail.localfor example.

Copy the jail.conf file to jail.local

 cp /etc/fail2ban/jail.conf /etc/fail2ban/jail.local 

We can now edit the configuration of fail2ban in order to customize its behavior.

Configuration

In order to change the configuration, we need to edit the file jail.local.

Edit the jail.conf file

 vi /etc/fail2ban/jail.local 

The configuration file is organized around different sections

DEFAULT sectio

Part DEFAULT allows to customize the general service behavior such as the IP address ignored, the time of a ban, the maximum number of authorized tests. This section is more often correctly configured for your use, however, you can modify it to adjust its behavior to the configuration of your system.
Within the parameters of section DEFAULT Here are the most import :

• Ignoreip: This parameter is used to exclude one or more IP addresses of fai2ban, this parameter is useful to avoid banish you yourself or one of your users if you happen to forget your password too many times.
• Bantime: This parameter is used to define the time in seconds of a ban. By default the banishment lasts 10 minutes.
• Maxretry: This parameter is used to set a maximum number of missed tests prior to a ban of the user.

ACTION sectio

Part ACTION set the reaction of fail2ban When the number of maximum test has been reached. For example, we can define the recipient of the alert mail, the mail service used, default of the surveillance Protocol, as well as the action taken by fail2ban that can range from the simple ban full record of information about the origin of the attack a reporting to a blacklist service chosen (Cloudfare, Badips.com, Blocklist.de,... |)
Section ACTION to specify the behavior of fail2ban during a ban.

• Banaction: This parameter is used to define the file called during a ban. By default it is the call to IPTables which is performed to banish the IP address on all ports
• Action: This parameter is used to define the action performed when a ban. Several shortcuts are available like for example the establishment of a rule IPTables or sending an email alert.

Section JAILS

Section JAILS to define behavior customized for different services monitored such as ssh, apache, etc...
The general syntax of a section JAIL is this :

 # nom de l'application ou du service
 [sshd]
 # le port sur lequel la surveillance doit être effectuée, ce peut être un chiffre (22) ou un mot-clé de protocole (ssh)
 port = ssh
 # le chemin du fichier de log sur lequel fail2ban doit aller vérifier
 logpath = %(sshd_log)s

 # Nous pouvons également "override" les paramètres par défauts, par exemple le nombre d'essais max
 maxretry = 3 ; Abaisser le nombre d'erreurs à 3 pour le ssh
 # Egalement le temps d'un bannissement
 bantime = 1200 ; Doubler le temps de bannissement pour le ssh

The configuration file default fail2ban already contains a number of services. Therefore, it is recommended to first perform a search on these services before adding a new.

Reboot

When all changes are complete, just restart the service fail2ban so that the new configuration is taken into account.

Restart the service

 service fail2ban restart 

Options

Service fail2ban has many other possible configurations. Including sending mail configuration, the ability to group email sending after a number defined bans.
To configure the various options we invite you to refer to official site fail2ban.

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