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DOC: set realistic expectations of what fail2ban protects against

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@ -11,6 +11,11 @@ password failures. It updates firewall rules to reject the IP address. These
rules can be defined by the user. Fail2Ban can read multiple log files such as
sshd or Apache web server ones.
Fail2Ban is able to reduce the rate of incorrect authentications attempts
however it cannot eliminate the risk that weak authentication presents.
Configure services to use only two factor or public/private authentication
mechanisms if you really want to protect services.
This README is a quick introduction to Fail2ban. More documentation, FAQ, HOWTOs
are available in fail2ban(1) manpage and on the website http://www.fail2ban.org

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@ -25,6 +25,17 @@ For testing regular expressions specified in a filter using the
fail2ban-regex program may be of use and its manual page is
fail2ban-regex(1).
.SH LIMITATION
Fail2Ban is able to reduce the rate of incorrect authentications attempts
however it cannot eliminate the risk that weak authentication presents.
Configure services to use only two factor or public/private authentication
mechanisms if you really want to protect services.
A local user is able to inject messages into syslog and using a Fail2Ban
jail that reads from syslog, they can effectively trigger a DoS attack against
any IP. Know this risk and configure Fail2Ban/grant shell access acordingly.
.SH FILES
\fI/etc/fail2ban/*\fR
.SH AUTHOR