Lock out users after too many failed login attempts

Question

I\'m looking for the most elegant way to lock a Django user account after several failed login attempts.

\"What have I tried?\":

Answer 1

One simple solution would be to create a variable in the User Profile that is initialy 0 and increased by 1 every time the user unsuccessfully tries to login. If this variable reaches a certain threshold(which is checked every time the user tries to login), the user account can be suspended. Of course when the user does succesfully login, the variable must be set back to 0.