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Input Howto secure a standard Postgres Port with Fail2Ban

hschneider

New Pleskian
This article describes how to add a Fail2Ban Jail for PostgreSQL:

Here the short version in english:

Create the filter file in
/etc/fail2ban/filter.d/custom-postgres.conf

with this content:

[Definition]
failregex = ^<HOST>.+FATAL: password authentication failed for user.+$
^<HOST>.+FATAL: no pg_hba.conf entry for host .+$
ignoreregex = duration:#
ignoreregex =

Save and restart Fail2Ban.

Add the Host ID to the Postgres Log by editing this file:
/etc/postgresql/10/main/postgresql.conf

Change log_line_prefix to
log_line_prefix = '%h %m [%p] %q%u@%d '

Save and restart Postgres.

Now go to Plesk's Fail2Ban Setup and create a new jail with this action:
iptables[chain="INPUT", name="PostgreSQL-Server", port="5432", protocol="tcp", returntype="RETURN", lockingopt="-w"]

Full config here:
plesk-fail2ban-postgres-jail.jpg

That'S it :)

-- Harald
 
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