.\" .TH "FAIL2BAN" "8" "July 2005" "Cyril Jaquier" "System administration tools" .SH "NAME" fail2ban \- bans IP that makes too many password failures .SH "SYNOPSIS" .B fail2ban [\fIOPTIONS\fR] .SH "DESCRIPTION" \fBFail2Ban\fR reads log file that contains password failure report and bans the corresponding IP addresses using firewall rules. It updates firewall rules to reject the IP address. .SH "OPTIONS" .TP \fB\-b\fR start in background .TP \fB\-c\fR \fIFILE\fR read configuration file \fIFILE\fR .TP \fB\-p\fR \fIFILE\fR create PID lock in \fIFILE\fR .TP \fB\-h, \-\-help\fR display this help message .TP \fB\-i\fR \fIIP\fR \fIIP\fR(s) to ignore .TP \fB\-k\fR kill a currently running Fail2Ban instance .TP \fB\-r\fR \fIVALUE\fR allow a max of \fIVALUE\fR password failure [maxfailures] .TP \fB\-t\fR \fITIME\fR ban IP for \fITIME\fR seconds [bantime] .TP \fB\-f\fR \fITIME\fR lifetime in seconds of failed entry [findtime] .TP \fB\-v\fR verbose. Use twice for greater effect .TP \fB\-V, \-\-version\fR print software version .SH "FILES" .I /etc/fail2ban.conf .RS The configuration file. See \fBfail2ban.conf\fR(5) for further details. .SH "REPORTING BUGS" Please report bugs at http://sourceforge.net/projects/fail2ban/ via bug tracker .SH "AUTHOR" Cyril Jaquier .SH "SEE ALSO" .TP See .BR "http://fail2ban.sourceforge.net/".