at login: user temporarly blocked

[Robbo]

On Sat, 2005-10-08 at 21:02 +0200, R.L.Reingard wrote:
> hello,
> if i try to log in with an other user's name and password, i get the  
> message 'system administrator has temporarly blocked the access (for this  
> user)'.
> my personal account still does run at login.
> i can not imagine what has caused this.
> any ideas where to look at?
> thank you,
> René
> 

Does the users password begin with ! in /etc/shadow  (the password is
the second column).  If so use usermod to remove it.