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This section can be improved with instructions on how to unblock yourself if you accidentally ban yourself. Also, a linked article on how to customize fail2ban to ignore specific ip addresses and subnets would be useful.
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2009-02-15 10:29:24,108 fail2ban.actions: WARNING \[ssh\] Ban 59.63.25.158
2009-02-15 10:39:24,137 fail2ban.actions: WARNING \[ssh\] Unban 59.63.25.158
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Unbanning

To unban a user try these instructions. I am hesitant about playing with the ip tables in any way, so I have not tried myself. I usually just wait the 10 minutes.

According to the developers, Fail2ban version 0.9 will include an unban command through it's own client program.

Deny Hosts

Another package that is useful is Deny Hosts which works to prevent distributed brute force ssh attacks,

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