Bug 448001 – enhancement for fail2ban to allow usage beyond bad passwords.

Bug 448001 - enhancement for fail2ban to allow usage beyond bad passwords.

Summary:	enhancement for fail2ban to allow usage beyond bad passwords.

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	None

Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	fail2ban (Show other bugs)
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Version:	9
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	low Severity low
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Assigned To:	Axel Thimm
QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Reported:	2008-05-22 16:19 EDT by Don Russell
Modified:	2009-03-22 06:28 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2009-03-22 06:28:06 EDT
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Description Don Russell 2008-05-22 16:19:40 EDT

Description of problem:
Enhancement:
Add a cli option so fail2ban could be used by other applications trying to
control nuisances. :-)

i.e. I have an application that runs via xinetd. It does not require a password,
but if people connect to it with the incorrect protocol, they are "up to no
good". I'd like to be able to invoke fail2ban from my app like this:
fail2ban --doorknocker <ip address>

fail2ban would treat that as if it were an unsuccessful password attempt... that
is, if it received enough of these "doorknocker" messages for the same IP
address, the IP address would be banned, and reported in the fail2ban logs



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
fail2ban-0.8.2-14.fc9.noarch

How reproducible:
n/a - enhancement


Steps to Reproduce:
1. n/a - enhancement
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Actual results:
n/a - enhancement

Expected results:
n/a - enhancement


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Comment 1 Axel Thimm 2008-05-22 20:48:15 EDT

That's more an upstream request than a packaging one.

Having said that fail2ban is not restricted to "bad passwords". Anything that
creates a log entry can control fail2ban.

Comment 2 Robert Vogelgesang 2009-03-16 07:07:24 EDT

How about closing this bugzilla entry, with resolution NOTABUG?

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