diff --git a/docs/installation/index.md b/docs/installation/index.md
index 467b82bad..e747afc4d 100644
--- a/docs/installation/index.md
+++ b/docs/installation/index.md
@@ -59,6 +59,8 @@ For password-only login:
 
     Homepage does not apply application-level rate limiting to password attempts. Deployments exposed outside a trusted network should configure their reverse proxy or ingress to rate limit POST requests to `/api/auth/callback/credentials`.
 
+    Each failed attempt is logged at `warn` level as `<nextauth> Failed password sign-in attempt`, which can be used as a fail2ban or CrowdSec filter. Note that a failed and a successful sign-in are both a `302` response, so a reverse proxy access log alone cannot distinguish them. No client address is recorded in this message: `X-Forwarded-For` is caller-supplied and a ban rule keyed on it could be tricked into blocking arbitrary addresses. Correlate the log timestamp with your reverse proxy's access log to identify the source.
+
 For OIDC login (overrides password login):
 
 - `HOMEPAGE_OIDC_ISSUER` (OIDC issuer URL, e.g., `https://auth.example.com/realms/homepage`)
diff --git a/src/__tests__/pages/api/auth/[...nextauth].test.js b/src/__tests__/pages/api/auth/[...nextauth].test.js
index c1a4446cb..6d1c9482f 100644
--- a/src/__tests__/pages/api/auth/[...nextauth].test.js
+++ b/src/__tests__/pages/api/auth/[...nextauth].test.js
@@ -148,6 +148,28 @@ describe("pages/api/auth/[...nextauth]", () => {
     await expect(provider.options.authorize({ password: 123 })).resolves.toBeNull();
   });
 
+  it("logs failed password sign-in attempts without recording client-supplied data", async () => {
+    process.env.HOMEPAGE_AUTH_ENABLED = "true";
+    process.env.HOMEPAGE_AUTH_PASSWORD = "secret";
+    process.env.HOMEPAGE_AUTH_SECRET = "auth-secret";
+    process.env.HOMEPAGE_EXTERNAL_URL = "https://homepage.example";
+
+    const mod = await import("pages/api/auth/[...nextauth]");
+    const [provider] = mod.default.options.providers;
+
+    await provider.options.authorize({ password: "wrong" });
+    await provider.options.authorize({ password: 123 });
+
+    expect(warnMock).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2);
+    expect(warnMock).toHaveBeenCalledWith("Failed password sign-in attempt");
+    // the attempted password must never reach the logs
+    expect(JSON.stringify(warnMock.mock.calls)).not.toContain("wrong");
+
+    warnMock.mockClear();
+    await provider.options.authorize({ password: "secret" });
+    expect(warnMock).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
   it("compares multibyte passwords without throwing on unequal byte lengths", async () => {
     process.env.HOMEPAGE_AUTH_ENABLED = "true";
     process.env.HOMEPAGE_AUTH_PASSWORD = "é";
diff --git a/src/pages/api/auth/[...nextauth].js b/src/pages/api/auth/[...nextauth].js
index 0952dd3a5..6be0c059a 100644
--- a/src/pages/api/auth/[...nextauth].js
+++ b/src/pages/api/auth/[...nextauth].js
@@ -65,6 +65,11 @@ if (authEnabled) {
   }
 }
 
+// Give fail2ban / CrowdSec etc something to match on
+function logFailedPasswordSignIn() {
+  createLogger("nextauth").warn("Failed password sign-in attempt");
+}
+
 let providers = [];
 if (authEnabled) {
   if (hasOidcConfig) {
@@ -104,11 +109,13 @@ if (authEnabled) {
         async authorize(credentials) {
           const provided = credentials?.password;
           if (!homepageAuthPasswordDigest || typeof provided !== "string") {
+            logFailedPasswordSignIn();
             return null;
           }
           const providedDigest = createHash("sha256").update(provided, "utf8").digest();
           const isMatch = timingSafeEqual(providedDigest, homepageAuthPasswordDigest);
           if (!isMatch) {
+            logFailedPasswordSignIn();
             return null;
           }
           return {