--max-password-errors

This is a command-line option for the mariadbd & mysqld commands (arg: Required).

In 10.6 ES, 10.6 CS, 10.5 ES, 10.5 CS, 10.4 ES, 10.4 CS:

If there is more than this number of failed connect attempts due to invalid password, user will be blocked from further connections until FLUSH_PRIVILEGES.

In 10.3 ES, 10.3 CS, 10.2 ES, 10.2 CS:

Not present

See also: mariadbd & mysqld for MariaDB Enterprise Server 10.6, in 10.6 CS, in 10.5 ES, in 10.5 CS, in 10.4 ES, in 10.4 CS, in 10.3 ES, in 10.3 CS, in 10.2 ES, and in 10.2 CS