fail2ban setup centos 7 not picking auth fail?

[Sam Kuper]

On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 11:55:33AM +0800, Plutocrat wrote:
> On 22/05/2020 18.32, Jerry wrote:
>> On Thu, 21 May 2020 23:22:04 -0700, lists stated:
>>> I use SSHGuard on well ssh (doh!), but supposedly you can use it for
>>> postfix and dovecot also. I can tell you it is well supported. [..]
>> 
>> SSHGuard works fairly well with Postfix; however, it is virtually
>> useless with Dovecot. [..] I have submitted documentation and
>> requests to SSHGuard, but they have never acted upon them [..]
>
> Just to add another alternative while we're discussing the subject,
> I've got a soft spot for CSF as a replacement for fail2ban, and it has
> a lot of additional features as well. 
> 
> 	https://www.configserver.com/cp/csf.html

In case it matters to anyone reading this thread:

- fail2ban and SSHGuard are free software (free as in freedom).  GPL2+
  and ISC respectively.

- CSF seems to be non-free:
  https://download.configserver.com/csf/license.txt

-- 
A: When it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: When is top-posting a bad thing?

()  ASCII ribbon campaign. Please avoid HTML emails & proprietary
/\  file formats. (Why? See e.g. https://v.gd/jrmGbS ). Thank you.