at login: user temporarly blocked

[R.L.Reingard]

> Am 09.10.2005, 19:09 Uhr, schrieb Robbo <ml at the-view.eclipse.co.uk>:

>> On Sat, 2005-10-08 at 21:02 +0200, R.L.Reingard wrote:
>> 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?

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

no, does not begin with a '!' in shadow.