Redirect back to the Admin login form with "Your account is temporarily disabled" error

This article provides the possible solutions for the Magento Admin login issue, where you are redirected back to the login form with the following error message: "Your account is temporarily disabled". The suggested solution is checking and correcting the admin user database settings.

Affected editions and versions: 

All Magento versions and editions.

Issue

Steps to reproduce:

1. Go to your Magento Admin page.
2. Enter your credentials and click Sign in.

Expected result:

You get logged in to the Magento Admin.

Actual result:

You are redirected back to the login form, with the following error message displayed: "Your account is temporarily disabled. Please try again later".

Solution

1. Create a database backup.
2. Use a database tool such as phpMyAdmin, or access the DB manually from the command line. In the admin_user database table, for your admin user record, check if is_active is set to "1" and lock_expires is NULL. Reset these values if required.

Related reading

• Login redirect when trying to login to Magento Admin