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[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

This usually means that your old password expired and the system didnt notify you. Basically, your account is inactive until you set a new password.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

That, or the system has a transparent lockout, where if you type your password wrong for e.g. 3 times it'll stop accepting new tries for a specific duration to stop people trying to guess the password. I've run into this type of brute forcing prevention multiple times, though IMO the correct approach would be 2FA coupled with proper passwords instead.

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