Ubuntu
fail2ban package

fail2ban default configuration should be "backend = systemd" in Xenial

Bug #1696591 reported by Andrew
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This bug affects 4 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
fail2ban (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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Bug Description

The default install of fail2ban has "/etc/fail2ban/jail.conf" option "backend=auto", which watches "/var/log/auth.log", which in 16.04 is an empty file on the default configuration of sshd (it logs verbosely to journalctl).
My opinion is that fail2ban ought to have a working default configuration for the default jail.

Obviously Ubuntu is following Debian on this, relevant Debian bug:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=770171

See original description
Andrew (andy-k)
summary: - fail2ban default configuration should be "backend = systemd"
+ fail2ban default configuration should be "backend = systemd" in Xenial
description: updated
Andrew (andy-k)
description: updated
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in fail2ban (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Tobias Brox (c-tobias) wrote :

This is a problem for focal as well

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