How To Install fail2ban-selinux on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fail2ban-selinux on CentOS 8.
What is fail2ban-selinux
SELinux policies for Fail2Ban.
We can use yum or dnf to install fail2ban-selinux on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fail2ban-selinux.
Install fail2ban-selinux on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install fail2ban-selinux using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install fail2ban-selinux
Install fail2ban-selinux on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install fail2ban-selinux using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install fail2ban-selinux
How To Uninstall fail2ban-selinux on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the fail2ban-selinux package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove fail2ban-selinux
fail2ban-selinux Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/share/licenses/fail2ban-selinux
/usr/share/licenses/fail2ban-selinux/COPYING
/usr/share/selinux/packages/targeted/fail2ban.pp.bz2
/var/lib/selinux/targeted/active/modules/200/fail2ban
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fail2ban-selinux on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.