Adding authentication failure check for fail2ban ================================================= You will have to use 5.1.10 for this to work. Add a filter /etc/fail2ban/filter.d/seeddms.conf with the content [Definition] failregex = \[error\] -- \(\) op.Login login failed then configure a new jail in /etc/fail2ban/jail.d/seeddms.conf [seeddms] enabled = yes port = http,https filter = seeddms logpath = /home/www-data/seeddms-demo/data/log/*.log