Thanks for the help david - I have been trying to work out what is wrong with this the past few days and realised that it's all very messed up.
I put webmin on the server before having fail2ban running, actually fail2ban hasn't been running at all. I hadn't set up the config file.. So this morning I looking over the settings on fail2bans site and I basically blocked everything, couldn't access SSH, sftp and none of the sites work at all. I managed to get around by turning off the firewall rules using this: which I found online via lish:
Code: # iptables -X
# iptables -t nat -F
# iptables -t nat -X
# iptables -t mangle -F
# iptables -t mangle -X
# iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT
# iptables -P FORWARD ACCEPT
# iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT
And that at least got me back into the system, but I don't know what caused it to turn off everything. Can you see anything up with the config file?
Code: # Fail2Ban configuration file.
#
# This file was composed for Debian systems from the original one
# provided now under /usr/share/doc/fail2ban/examples/jail.conf
# for additional examples.
#
# To avoid merges during upgrades DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE
# and rather provide your changes in /etc/fail2ban/jail.local
#
# Author: Yaroslav O. Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>
#
# $Revision: 281 $
#
# The DEFAULT allows a global definition of the options. They can be override
# in each jail afterwards.
[DEFAULT]
# "ignoreip" can be an IP address, a CIDR mask or a DNS host
ignoreip = 127.0.0.1 180.11.85.131
bantime = 1209600
findtime = 1800
maxretry = 3
# "backend" specifies the backend used to get files modification. Available
# options are "gamin", "polling" and "auto".
# yoh: For some reason Debian shipped python-gamin didn't work as expected
# This issue left ToDo, so polling is default backend for now
backend = polling
#
# Destination email address used solely for the interpolations in
# jail.{conf,local} configuration files.
destemail = root@localhost
#
# ACTIONS
#
# Default banning action (e.g. iptables, iptables-new,
# iptables-multiport, shorewall, etc) It is used to define
# action_* variables. Can be overriden globally or per
# section within jail.local file
banaction = iptables-multiport
# email action. Since 0.8.1 upstream fail2ban uses sendmail
# MTA for the mailing. Change mta configuration parameter to mail
# if you want to revert to conventional 'mail'.
mta = sendmail
# Default protocol
protocol = tcp
#
# Action shortcuts. To be used to define action parameter
# The simplest action to take: ban only
action_ = %(banaction)s[name=%(__name__)s, port="%(port)s", protocol="%(protocol)s]
# ban & send an e-mail with whois report to the destemail.
action_mw = %(banaction)s[name=%(__name__)s, port="%(port)s", protocol="%(protocol)s]
%(mta)s-whois[name=%(__name__)s, dest="%(destemail)s", protocol="%(protocol)s]
# ban & send an e-mail with whois report and relevant log lines
# to the destemail.
action_mwl = %(banaction)s[name=%(__name__)s, port="%(port)s", protocol="%(protocol)s]
%(mta)s-whois-lines[name=%(__name__)s, dest="%(destemail)s", logpath=%(logpath)s]
# Choose default action. To change, just override value of 'action' with the
# interpolation to the chosen action shortcut (e.g. action_mw, action_mwl, etc) in jail.local
# globally (section [DEFAULT]) or per specific section
action = %(action_)s
#
# JAILS
#
# Next jails corresponds to the standard configuration in Fail2ban 0.6 which
# was shipped in Debian. Enable any defined here jail by including
#
# [SECTION_NAME]
# enabled = false
#
# in /etc/fail2ban/jail.local.
#
# Optionally you may override any other parameter (e.g. banaction,
# action, port, logpath, etc) in that section within jail.local
[ssh]
enabled = true
port = ssh
filter = sshd
logpath = /var/log/auth.log
maxretry = 3
# Generic filter for pam. Has to be used with action which bans all ports
# such as iptables-allports, shorewall
[pam-generic]
enabled = true
# pam-generic filter can be customized to monitor specific subset of 'tty's
filter = pam-generic
# port actually must be irrelevant but lets leave it all for some possible uses
port = all
banaction = iptables-allports
port = anyport
logpath = /var/log/auth.log
maxretry = 3
[xinetd-fail]
enabled = false
filter = xinetd-fail
port = all
banaction = iptables-multiport-log
logpath = /var/log/daemon.log
maxretry = 2
[ssh-ddos]
enabled = true
port = ssh
filter = sshd-ddos
logpath = /var/log/auth.log
maxretry = 3
#
# HTTP servers
#
[apache]
enabled = true
port = http,https
filter = apache-auth
logpath = /var/log/apache*/*error.log
maxretry = 6
# default action is now multiport, so apache-multiport jail was left
# for compatibility with previous (<0.7.6-2) releases
[apache-multiport]
enabled = false
port = http,https
filter = apache-auth
logpath = /var/log/apache*/*error.log
maxretry = 6
[apache-noscript]
enabled = false
port = http,https
filter = apache-noscript
logpath = /var/log/apache*/*error.log
maxretry = 6
[apache-overflows]
enabled = false
port = http,https
filter = apache-overflows
logpath = /var/log/apache*/*error.log
maxretry = 2
#
# FTP servers
#
[vsftpd]
enabled = false
port = ftp,ftp-data,ftps,ftps-data
filter = vsftpd
logpath = /var/log/vsftpd.log
# or overwrite it in jails.local to be
# logpath = /var/log/auth.log
# if you want to rely on PAM failed login attempts
# vsftpd's failregex should match both of those formats
maxretry = 6
[proftpd]
enabled = false
port = ftp,ftp-data,ftps,ftps-data
filter = proftpd
logpath = /var/log/proftpd/proftpd.log
maxretry = 6
[wuftpd]
enabled = false
port = ftp,ftp-data,ftps,ftps-data
filter = wuftpd
logpath = /var/log/auth.log
maxretry = 6
#
# Mail servers
#
[postfix]
enabled = true
port = smtp,ssmtp
filter = postfix
logpath = /var/log/mail.log
[couriersmtp]
enabled = false
port = smtp,ssmtp
filter = couriersmtp
logpath = /var/log/mail.log
#
# Mail servers authenticators: might be used for smtp,ftp,imap servers, so
# all relevant ports get banned
#
[courierauth]
enabled = false
port = smtp,ssmtp,imap2,imap3,imaps,pop3,pop3s
filter = courierlogin
logpath = /var/log/mail.log
[sasl]
enabled = false
port = smtp,ssmtp,imap2,imap3,imaps,pop3,pop3s
filter = sasl
# You might consider monitoring /var/log/warn.log instead
# if you are running postfix. See http://bugs.debian.org/507990
logpath = /var/log/mail.log
# DNS Servers
# These jails block attacks against named (bind9). By default, logging is off
# with bind9 installation. You will need something like this:
#
# logging {
# channel security_file {
# file "/var/log/named/security.log" versions 3 size 30m;
# severity dynamic;
# print-time yes;
# };
# category security {
# security_file;
# };
# };
#
# in your named.conf to provide proper logging
# Word of Caution:
# Given filter can lead to DoS attack against your DNS server
# since there is no way to assure that UDP packets come from the
# real source IP
[named-refused-udp]
enabled = false
port = domain,953
protocol = udp
filter = named-refused
logpath = /var/log/named/security.log
[named-refused-tcp]
enabled = false
port = domain,953
protocol = tcp
filter = named-refused
logpath = /var/log/named/security.log
I have to admit, the security side of running this stuff is making me very nervous. I'm still a newb at all this stuff even after 6 months.
In reagards to security is it best to start over from scratch?
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