How to understand if the account is locked out due to a number of failed login attempts ?

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Issue

After having configured the system PAM modules to lock out the user accounts after a predefined number of failed login attempts, a consecutive login attempt will just refuse the connection with the same "Access denied" message and with no other clue of what will be the problem.

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4

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