Description

Installs and configures fail2ban, a utility that watches logs for failed login attempts and blocks repeat offenders with firewall rules. On Redhat systems this cookbook will enable the EPEL repository in order to retrieve the fail2ban package.

Requirements

Chef version 0.10.10+ and Ohai 0.6.12+ are required.

Platform

• Debian, Ubuntu
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (CentOS/Amazon/Scientific/Oracle)
• Fedora

Cookbooks

• yum

Recipes

default

Installs the fail2ban package, manages 2 templates: /etc/fail2ban/fail2ban.conf and /etc/fail2ban/jail.conf, and manages the fail2ban service.

Usage

Typically, include recipe[fail2ban] in a base role applied to all nodes.

License and Author

Author:: Joshua Timberman

Copyright:: 2009-2013, Opscode, Inc

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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