---
title: 'Installing Fail2ban on Octoprint without basic http authentication'
url: 'https://darkball.net/installing-fail2ban-on-octoprint-without-basic-http-authentication'
markdown: 'https://darkball.net/installing-fail2ban-on-octoprint-without-basic-http-authentication.md'
date: '2020-01-14'
description: 'I don’t have http auth set for my Octoprint, and all guides I found required it for Fail2ban to work. I started looking around the Octoprint log files and found that the recent addition of Force Login plugin creates logs of failed logins to .octoprint/logs/octoprint.log file. Instal'
taxonomy:
  tag:
    - '3d printing'
    - install
    - octoprint
    - fail2ban
  archives_month:
    - jan_2020
  archives_year:
    - '2020'
---

# Installing Fail2ban on Octoprint without basic http authentication

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