All users locked out

[Peggy Kutyla]

I've got a user who's been kick out twice and got his his session locked (expected) as well as all other users (definitively not expected).
I had to graphically (not cool) log in as root to unlock the user.

Is there a way to unlock a user by editing/removing a file ?

timekpr 15.1 - archlinux - kernel 4.20.13

[Eduards Bezverhijs (mjasnik)]

This version of timekpr locks users via PAM, You can unlock them by editing /etc/security/access.conf and removing lines that locks them out.
Timekpr has parameter LOCKLASTS in /etc/timekpr.conf, by default it's set to 30 minutes which means that afer 30 minutes all locked users get unlocked.

But the issue appears very strange, all users usually don't get locked out just like that.
Can You send me /var/log/timekpr.log for the day when all got locked out?

[Peggy Kutyla (peggy-kutyla)]

OK. Thx for the PAM tips.

LOCKLASTS is 30 minutes.

I've search the log but couldn't find anything relevant (though I don't know what I exactly should have search for) so I'm sending you all the log.

The user at fault is rxxxx.

Next time it'll append, I'll wait 1 minute so that timekpr updates his daily file before doing something else.