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CompTIA Linux+ XK0-006 (V8) Practice Question

A system administrator is hardening an SSH server using fail2ban. They want to configure it to ban an IP address for one full day after 5 failed login attempts within a 15-minute window. Which of the following configurations in /etc/fail2ban/jail.local would correctly implement this policy for the sshd jail?

  • [sshd]
enabled = true
maxretry = 15
findtime = 5m
bantime = 24h

  • [sshd]
enabled = true
maxretry = 5
findtime = 15m
bantime = 1d

  • [sshd]
enabled = true
bantime = 5
findtime = 1d
maxretry = 15

  • [DEFAULT]
maxretry = 5
findtime = 900
bantime = 86400
CompTIA Linux+ XK0-006 (V8)
Security
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