I have the following problem: adding a login account, deleting it, adding the same name again will lock the user name out with the above message. After deleting it, I made sure that the user home directory is gone, the entries in /etc/passwd, group and shadow for this user are gone. Then, when I add the same user name again, I cannot use the graphical logon window - I geht the "Xsession: login for <user> is disabled" - message box prompting me to click "OK" - Bs - it's not OK!!! I think there is somewhere an entry remaining in some auth database and the authentication fails. My syslog entry: Jun 29 01:27:50 munich PAM-unix2[18442]: session started for user sam2, service xdm Jun 29 01:28:00 munich PAM-unix2[18442]: session finished for user sam2, service xdm the /etc/pam.d/xdm has: #%PAM-1.0 auth required /lib/security/pam_unix.so nullok #set_secrpc account required /lib/security/pam_unix.so password required /lib/security/pam_unix.so #strict=false session required /lib/security/pam_unix.so debug # trace or none and I suspect that the session somehow fails. But I have no clue where the user information is kept in PAM. It is on SuSE 6.4 Samartha