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Fail2banlog extension for MediaWiki

Tuesday 12 February 2008

Laurent Chouraki released an experimental extension for MediaWiki. This extension feeds fail2ban so you can block bruteforce attacks at the firewall level.


- Implementation User activity
- Description This extension writes a text file with IPs of failed logins attempts as an input to fail2ban.
- Author(s) Laurent Chouraki (LaurentChouraki talk)
- MediaWiki 1.11
- Download http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Fail2banlog
- Parameters fail2banfile, fail2banid
- Example 2008-02-09 10:47:15 CET Authentication error for MyUser from 10.2.5.221 on TestWiki
- Hooks used LoginAuthenticateAudit

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Download and installation instructions


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