Comments on: Securing SSH server with fail2ban

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 09:51:00 +0000

Good point! I am running python 2.5 on my server, so I did not have any problems with fail2ban.

By: Michael Papenbrock

Michael Papenbrock — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:00:19 +0000

Me too!
Maybe just a sidenote to the program. On Ubuntu 9.04 the fail2ban logfiles got a little spammed with messages like:
2009-07-20 14:16:59,535 fail2ban.server : ERROR Unexpected communication error
I found out that this seems to be a problem with python 2.6. So I installed python 2.5 and adjusted the files fail2ban-client, fail2ban-regex and fail2ban-server (I guess, the first ones aren’t necessary, but anyway) in a way, that they read:
#!/usr/bin/python2.5
That gets rid of the error messages, but I think there were no other problems besides that.

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:48:32 +0000

Thanks Michael for the comment. Looking forward to seeing you online sometimes.

By: Michael Papenbrock

Michael Papenbrock — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:34:55 +0000

Thanks for the hint!
Just installed this solution on our Ubuntu cluster. This is way more convenient than using the denyhosts package!