HOW TO: Fail2ban configuration using linux
I wanted to share my fail2ban configuration for people that want to protect against a brute force attack. Fail2ban is a piece of software that will monitor log files for a authentication failures then ban the source ip address after so many attempts to protect against a brute force attack. I searched around for an tutorial or how to on how to implement this for emby and came up short, so I decided to give it a try and got it to work without much trouble at all. I wouldn't consider myself an expe
I was going to start a new thread, but wanted to let people be aware of a change to the fail2ban config required based on my setup.
The logs now don't look identical to the 2019 view that was originally at the start of this thread, which means that the regex created does not work any longer.
The second bit, and this could be 1 of 2 reasons: 1) I am running emby, via the linuxserver docker and 2) running in docker, either way on my setup the logs have some strange characters (half wid
