'Max login attempts' variable/config?

[Turbo Fredriksson <turbo@bayour.com>]

when there is no longer anything to take away.
               -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Date: 14 Dec 2000 14:36:16 +0100
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I'd like to limit the number of tries a user can enter the wrong
password in one go...

I'm currently running 'http://www.phenoelit.de/kold/' against my
LDAP server (with a word list of 257k words)...

I'd like to make this kind of attempts 'impossible' (or at least
make it more difficult).

Currently I've put a ipchains rule that makes it impossible to
search the db from anywhere but our own SID block and put did
some reasonable ACL rules, but ...