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Fail2Ban filter for blocking administrator, adminadmin and admin usernames on authentication failure
# Fail2Ban configuration file
#
# Author: Charles Lecklider
#
[INCLUDES]
# Read common prefixes. If any customizations available -- read them from
# common.local
before = common.conf
[Definition]
_daemon = wordpress
# Option: failregex
# Notes.: regex to match the password failures messages in the logfile. The
# host must be matched by a group named "host". The tag "<HOST>" can
# be used for standard IP/hostname matching and is only an alias for
# (?:::f{4,6}:)?(?P<host>[\w\-.^_]+)
# Values: TEXT
#
failregex = Authentication failure for administrator from <HOST>$
Authentication failure for adminadmin from <HOST>$
Authentication failure for admin from <HOST>$
# Option: ignoreregex
# Notes.: regex to ignore. If this regex matches, the line is ignored.
# Values: TEXT
#
ignoreregex =
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