Account is disabled -- see Account Administrator

This message means the account is locked for one of three reasons:

• You locked the account with the Accounts Manager. See ``Locking or unlocking a user account''.

• The password lifetime for the account elapsed. The password for the account did not change before the password lifetime was over. To re-enable the account, you can either assign a new password as described in ``Setting or changing a user password'' or unlock the account as described above (in which case the user is forced to set the password at login time). Advise users to change their passwords before the lifetime expires.

• A number of unsuccessful tries were made on the account, exceeding the threshold number you set for locking it. These tries may not have all been made on the same terminal. Before re-enabling the account, it is a good idea to determine the cause for the lockout. It may be that the user is a poor typist or that or another person is trying to lock the account and knows this is a way to do it, or that a real attempt to penetrate the account is being made. You may want to adjust the threshold upward or downward, depending on the nature of the system users, the value of the data, and the accessibility of the system to outsiders.