Hi,

what about a script that removes the failed IP from F2B's database when
a successful login is detected?
As Sergey Brester (contributor) wrote on github:

<quote>
Question: Also, is there a way of unmark an ip as being "bad"?
Answer: Manually unbanning does this (by removing from sqlite-database).
# everywhere (in all jails and database, >= v.0.10):
?sudo? fail2ban-client unban <IP> ... <IP>
# per jail (>= v.0.9)
?sudo? fail2ban-client set <JAIL> unbanip <IP>
</quote>

I think it would work when the script is triggered by an cronjob,
reading the logfile, and then sends the IPs that successful logged in to
the fail2ban-client.

Greetz
Florian

Am 09.09.2020 um 14:49 schrieb [email protected]:
> Hi All
>
> I am trying to setup Fail2Ban type functionality for a mail server.
> The object is to block 1000's of BOTS that try dictionary attacks or
> have lists of previously compromised accounts (which now have new
> passwords).
>
> But I do not want to accidentally block bona fida IP addresses, like a
> company's office router, which supports many valid users, even if one
> or two users have bad passwords.
>
> For example if someone enters their password incorrectly and their
> mail program retries a number of times, their IP will get blocked. If
> they are connecting from an office environment then all of their
> colleagues who share the same public IP address will also get blocked.
> This is not acceptable.
>
> So the functionality we are looking for is:
>
> - when we log a valid login, we "whitelist" that IP for a period.
>
> - when we log a number of invalid logins in a given period, we jail it
> for a jail period, as per the normal fail2ban rules. Provided that IP
> is not already whitelisted.
>
> One way to implement the above is to count the valid logins, per IP,
> and subtract the invalid logins, per IP. We can stop counting when we
> reach a maximum (say 10), but if it goes down to say, negative 3, we
> jail the IP. On un-jailing we reset the counter. This way an IP that
> supports a group of bona-fida users should never get jailed, but the
> bots will get detected and blocked.
>
> I have looked through the documentation I can't see an obvious way of
> doing this with fail2ban. Has anybody implemented anything like this
> before?
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Ian
>
>
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