{
config,
lib,
pkgs,
...
}:
with lib;
let
cfg = config.services.fail2ban;
settingsFormat = pkgs.formats.keyValue { };
configFormat = pkgs.formats.ini {
mkKeyValue = generators.mkKeyValueDefault { } " = ";
};
mkJailConfig =
name: attrs:
optionalAttrs (name != "DEFAULT") { inherit (attrs) enabled; }
// optionalAttrs (attrs.filter != null) {
filter = if (builtins.isString filter) then filter else name;
}
// attrs.settings;
mkFilter =
nameValuePair "fail2ban/filter.d/${name}.conf" {
source = configFormat.generate "filter.d/${name}.conf" attrs.filter;
fail2banConf = configFormat.generate "fail2ban.local" cfg.daemonSettings;
strJails = filterAttrs (_: builtins.isString) cfg.jails;
attrsJails = filterAttrs (_: builtins.isAttrs) cfg.jails;
jailConf =
configFile = configFormat.generate "jail.local" (
{ INCLUDES.before = "paths-nixos.conf"; } // (mapAttrs mkJailConfig attrsJails)
);
extraConfig = concatStringsSep "\n" (
attrValues (
mapAttrs (
name: def:
optionalString (def != "") ''
[${name}]
${def}
''
) strJails
)
in
pkgs.concatText "jail.local" [
configFile
(pkgs.writeText "extra-jail.local" extraConfig)
];
pathsConf = pkgs.writeText "paths-nixos.conf" ''
# NixOS
[INCLUDES]
before = paths-common.conf
after = paths-overrides.local
[DEFAULT]
'';
imports = [
(mkRemovedOptionModule [
"services"
"fail2ban"
"daemonConfig"
] "The daemon is now configured through the attribute set `services.fail2ban.daemonSettings`.")
(mkRemovedOptionModule [ "services" "fail2ban" "extraSettings" ]
"The extra default configuration can now be set using `services.fail2ban.jails.DEFAULT.settings`."
###### interface
options = {
services.fail2ban = {
enable = mkOption {
default = false;
type = types.bool;
description = ''
Whether to enable the fail2ban service.
See the documentation of {option}`services.fail2ban.jails`
for what jails are enabled by default.
package = mkPackageOption pkgs "fail2ban" {
example = "fail2ban_0_11";
packageFirewall = mkOption {
default = config.networking.firewall.package;
defaultText = literalExpression "config.networking.firewall.package";
type = types.package;
description = "The firewall package used by fail2ban service. Defaults to the package for your firewall (iptables or nftables).";
extraPackages = mkOption {
default = [ ];
type = types.listOf types.package;
example = lib.literalExpression "[ pkgs.ipset ]";
Extra packages to be made available to the fail2ban service. The example contains
the packages needed by the `iptables-ipset-proto6` action.
bantime = mkOption {
default = "10m";
type = types.str;
example = "1h";
description = "Number of seconds that a host is banned.";
maxretry = mkOption {
default = 3;
type = types.ints.unsigned;
description = "Number of failures before a host gets banned.";
banaction = mkOption {
default = if config.networking.nftables.enable then "nftables-multiport" else "iptables-multiport";
defaultText = literalExpression ''if config.networking.nftables.enable then "nftables-multiport" else "iptables-multiport"'';
Default banning action (e.g. iptables, iptables-new, iptables-multiport,
iptables-ipset-proto6-allports, shorewall, etc). It is used to
define action_* variables. Can be overridden globally or per
section within jail.local file
banaction-allports = mkOption {
default = if config.networking.nftables.enable then "nftables-allports" else "iptables-allports";
defaultText = literalExpression ''if config.networking.nftables.enable then "nftables-allports" else "iptables-allports"'';
shorewall, etc) for "allports" jails. It is used to define action_* variables. Can be overridden
globally or per section within jail.local file
bantime-increment.enable = mkOption {
"bantime.increment" allows to use database for searching of previously banned ip's to increase
a default ban time using special formula, default it is banTime * 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 ...
bantime-increment.rndtime = mkOption {
default = null;
type = types.nullOr types.str;
example = "8m";
"bantime.rndtime" is the max number of seconds using for mixing with random time
to prevent "clever" botnets calculate exact time IP can be unbanned again
bantime-increment.maxtime = mkOption {
example = "48h";
"bantime.maxtime" is the max number of seconds using the ban time can reach (don't grows further)
bantime-increment.factor = mkOption {
example = "4";
"bantime.factor" is a coefficient to calculate exponent growing of the formula or common multiplier,
default value of factor is 1 and with default value of formula, the ban time grows by 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 ...
bantime-increment.formula = mkOption {
example = "ban.Time * math.exp(float(ban.Count+1)*banFactor)/math.exp(1*banFactor)";
"bantime.formula" used by default to calculate next value of ban time, default value below,
the same ban time growing will be reached by multipliers 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 ...
bantime-increment.multipliers = mkOption {
example = "1 2 4 8 16 32 64";
"bantime.multipliers" used to calculate next value of ban time instead of formula, corresponding
previously ban count and given "bantime.factor" (for multipliers default is 1);
following example grows ban time by 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 ... and if last ban count greater as multipliers count,
always used last multiplier (64 in example), for factor '1' and original ban time 600 - 10.6 hours
bantime-increment.overalljails = mkOption {
type = types.nullOr types.bool;
example = true;
"bantime.overalljails" (if true) specifies the search of IP in the database will be executed
cross over all jails, if false (default), only current jail of the ban IP will be searched.
ignoreIP = mkOption {
type = types.listOf types.str;
example = [
"192.168.0.0/16"
"2001:DB8::42"
"ignoreIP" can be a list of IP addresses, CIDR masks or DNS hosts. Fail2ban will not ban a host which
matches an address in this list. Several addresses can be defined using space (and/or comma) separator.
daemonSettings = mkOption {
inherit (configFormat) type;
defaultText = literalExpression ''
Definition = {
logtarget = "SYSLOG";
socket = "/run/fail2ban/fail2ban.sock";
pidfile = "/run/fail2ban/fail2ban.pid";
dbfile = "/var/lib/fail2ban/fail2ban.sqlite3";
The contents of Fail2ban's main configuration file.
It's generally not necessary to change it.
jails = mkOption {
default = { };
example = literalExpression ''
apache-nohome-iptables = {
settings = {
# Block an IP address if it accesses a non-existent
# home directory more than 5 times in 10 minutes,
# since that indicates that it's scanning.
filter = "apache-nohome";
action = '''iptables-multiport[name=HTTP, port="http,https"]''';
logpath = "/var/log/httpd/error_log*";
backend = "auto";
findtime = 600;
bantime = 600;
maxretry = 5;
dovecot = {
# block IPs which failed to log-in
# aggressive mode add blocking for aborted connections
filter = "dovecot[mode=aggressive]";
maxretry = 3;
type =
with types;
attrsOf (
either lines (
submodule (
{ name, ... }:
enabled = mkEnableOption "this jail" // {
default = true;
readOnly = name == "DEFAULT";
filter = mkOption {
type = nullOr (either str configFormat.type);
description = "Content of the filter used for this jail.";
settings = mkOption {
inherit (settingsFormat) type;
description = "Additional settings for this jail.";
The configuration of each Fail2ban “jail”. A jail
consists of an action (such as blocking a port using
{command}`iptables`) that is triggered when a
filter applied to a log file triggers more than a certain
number of times in a certain time period. Actions are
defined in {file}`/etc/fail2ban/action.d`,
while filters are defined in
{file}`/etc/fail2ban/filter.d`.
NixOS comes with a default `sshd` jail;
for it to work well,
{option}`services.openssh.logLevel` should be set to
`"VERBOSE"` or higher so that fail2ban
can observe failed login attempts.
This module sets it to `"VERBOSE"` if
not set otherwise, so enabling fail2ban can make SSH logs
more verbose.
###### implementation
config = mkIf cfg.enable {
assertions = [
assertion = cfg.bantime-increment.formula == null || cfg.bantime-increment.multipliers == null;
message = ''
Options `services.fail2ban.bantime-increment.formula` and `services.fail2ban.bantime-increment.multipliers` cannot be both specified.
warnings = mkIf (!config.networking.firewall.enable && !config.networking.nftables.enable) [
"fail2ban can not be used without a firewall"
environment.systemPackages = [ cfg.package ];
environment.etc =
"fail2ban/fail2ban.local".source = fail2banConf;
"fail2ban/jail.local".source = jailConf;
"fail2ban/fail2ban.conf".source = "${cfg.package}/etc/fail2ban/fail2ban.conf";
"fail2ban/jail.conf".source = "${cfg.package}/etc/fail2ban/jail.conf";
"fail2ban/paths-common.conf".source = "${cfg.package}/etc/fail2ban/paths-common.conf";
"fail2ban/paths-nixos.conf".source = pathsConf;
"fail2ban/action.d".source = "${cfg.package}/etc/fail2ban/action.d/*.conf";
"fail2ban/filter.d".source = "${cfg.package}/etc/fail2ban/filter.d/*.conf";
// (mapAttrs' mkFilter (
filterAttrs (_: v: v.filter != null && !builtins.isString v.filter) attrsJails
));
systemd.packages = [ cfg.package ];
systemd.services.fail2ban = {
wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ];
partOf = optional config.networking.firewall.enable "firewall.service";
restartTriggers = [
fail2banConf
jailConf
pathsConf
path = [
cfg.package
cfg.packageFirewall
pkgs.iproute2
] ++ cfg.extraPackages;
serviceConfig = {
# Capabilities
CapabilityBoundingSet = [
"CAP_AUDIT_READ"
"CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH"
"CAP_NET_ADMIN"
"CAP_NET_RAW"
# Security
NoNewPrivileges = true;
# Directory
RuntimeDirectory = "fail2ban";
RuntimeDirectoryMode = "0750";
StateDirectory = "fail2ban";
StateDirectoryMode = "0750";
LogsDirectory = "fail2ban";
LogsDirectoryMode = "0750";
# Sandboxing
ProtectSystem = "strict";
ProtectHome = true;
PrivateTmp = true;
PrivateDevices = true;
ProtectHostname = true;
ProtectKernelTunables = true;
ProtectKernelModules = true;
ProtectControlGroups = true;
# Defaults for the daemon settings
services.fail2ban.daemonSettings.Definition = {
logtarget = mkDefault "SYSLOG";
socket = mkDefault "/run/fail2ban/fail2ban.sock";
pidfile = mkDefault "/run/fail2ban/fail2ban.pid";
dbfile = mkDefault "/var/lib/fail2ban/fail2ban.sqlite3";
# Add some reasonable default jails. The special "DEFAULT" jail
# sets default values for all other jails.
services.fail2ban.jails = mkMerge [
DEFAULT.settings =
(optionalAttrs cfg.bantime-increment.enable (
"bantime.increment" = cfg.bantime-increment.enable;
// (mapAttrs' (name: nameValuePair "bantime.${name}") (
filterAttrs (n: v: v != null && n != "enable") cfg.bantime-increment
))
// {
# Miscellaneous options
inherit (cfg) banaction maxretry bantime;
ignoreip = ''127.0.0.1/8 ${optionalString config.networking.enableIPv6 "::1"} ${concatStringsSep " " cfg.ignoreIP}'';
backend = "systemd";
# Actions
banaction_allports = cfg.banaction-allports;
# Block SSH if there are too many failing connection attempts.
(mkIf config.services.openssh.enable {
sshd.settings.port = mkDefault (
concatMapStringsSep "," builtins.toString config.services.openssh.ports
})
# Benefits from verbose sshd logging to observe failed login attempts,
# so we set that here unless the user overrode it.
services.openssh.settings.LogLevel = mkDefault "VERBOSE";