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Enable Fail2Ban on CentOS VPS

Category: Security

Set up Fail2Ban—a brute-force protector—on a CentOS VPS—install with

yum install fail2ban

start with

systemctl start fail2ban

configure SSH jail in /etc/fail2ban/jail local:

[sshd]\nenabled = true\nmaxretry = 5

On Vultr test with

fail2ban-client status sshd

—expect banned IPs Secures hosting against login attacks