How does a user get locked out unintentionally?

From: David A. Cobb (superbiskit_at_cox.net)
Date: 03/11/05

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    Yesterday I ran InteractiveBastille; but I passed up on some of the more
    stringent choices.

    Today, I can log into Gnome (wearing my normal hat); however, when my
    wife tries to login
    her password illicits "The system administrator has temporarily disabled
    access"

    I had her try logging in on the console: there she gets "Permission denied"

    I did "passwd -u <herlogin>" -- it responded "password changed;" but the
    situation did not change.
    The account details (passwd -S) look exactly like my own. ( P <date> 0
    99999 7 -1 )

    I removed bastille, figuring it was the only security-related thing I've
    done since her last login.
    That also didn't help.

    I'm in deep doo-doo here! Can anyone help? 

    -- 
David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate
"By God's Grace, I am a Christian man; by my actions a great sinner." -- The Way of a Pilgrim: R.French, Tr.
Life is too short to tolerate crappy software!
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