Fail2ban 'Password mismatch' regex
Christian Kivalo
ml+dovecot at valo.at
Mon Sep 11 10:10:45 EEST 2017
On 2017-09-11 08:57, James Brown wrote:
> I have turned on 'auth_debug_passwords=yes’ in dovecot.conf.
>
> I’m trying to get Fail2ban to detect this log line:
>
> Sep 11 15:52:49 mail dovecot[54239]: auth-worker(10094):
> sql(user at bordo.com.au
> <mailto:user at bordo.com.au>,::1,<L2xqieNYeM4AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAB>):
> Password mismatch (given password: 2)
>
> I’ve added it as the last line of my dovecot filter regex:
>
> failregex =
> ^%(__prefix_line)s(%(__pam_auth)s(\(dovecot:auth\))?:)?\s+authentication
> failure; logname=\S* uid=\S* euid=\S* tty=dovecot ruser=\S*
> rhost=<HOST>(\s+user=\S*)?\s*$
> ^%(__prefix_line)s(pop3|imap)-login: (Info: )?(Aborted
> login|Disconnected)(: Inactivity)? \(((auth failed, \d+ attempts)( in
> \d+ secs)?|tried to use (disabled|disallo$
> ^%(__prefix_line)s(Info|dovecot:
> auth\(default\)|auth-worker\(\d+\)): pam\(\S+,<HOST>\):
> pam_authenticate\(\) failed: (User not known to the underlying
> authentication$
> ^%(__prefix_line)s(auth|auth-worker\(\d+\)):
> (pam|passwd-file)\(\S+,<HOST>\): unknown user\s*$
> ^%(__prefix_line)s(auth|auth-worker\(\d+\)): Info:
> ldap\(\S*,<HOST>,\S*\): invalid credentials\s*$
> ^%(__prefix_line)sauth: Info: sql\(\S+,<HOST>\): (Password
> mismatch|unknown user)( \((SHA1 of given password: [0-9a-f]{5,40}|given
> password: \w*)\))?$
^%(__prefix_line)sauth: Info: sql\(\S+,<HOST>,\<\S+\>\):
(Password mismatch|unknown user)( \((SHA1 of given password:
[0-9a-f]{5,40}|given password: \w*)\))?$
^^^^^^^
You are missing the ID after the host part.
>
> Have spent ages googling and trying different variations.
>
> Does anyone have a fail2ban regex that would work on the above Dovecot
> log line?
>
> (Running latest versions of Dovecot and fail2ban)
>
> Many thanks,
>
> James.
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Christian Kivalo
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