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 2. 3. Actual results: n/a - enhancement Expected results: n/a - enhancement Additional info:
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.
How about closing this bugzilla entry, with resolution NOTABUG?