User Settings Manager

Setting

Description

Allow creation of Self Registered Users

Select this option if you want to enable any user to create a new account for your portal. New users are given the Default Profile settings.

Allow numeric Login for mobile devices.

Select this option if you want to allow numeric login. Users who access the portal through mobile devices can probably log on more easily with a numeric user ID.

Auto-assign numeric Login IDs for new Users.

 

Select this option if you want to automatically assign a numeric user name when a new user is created (through importation, manual creation, or self-registration).

Note: When you are manually creating a user, the Mobile Device Authentication page does not display a numeric ID; the numeric ID is not assigned until you save the user. To view the automatically generated numeric ID, click the new user's name to open the User Editor and click the Mobile Device Authentication page.

Enable account locking

By default, user accounts created through the portal (not those imported through an authentication source) are automatically locked out after repeated failed login attempts.

If you want auto-locking, define the following:

• In the Minutes to track failed Logins box, type the number of minutes you want to track failed login attempts for each user. This period begins at a user's first failed login attempt. If a user reaches the maximum number of failed login attempts within this period, the user is locked out of the portal for the amount of time specified in Minutes to keep user account locked.

• In the Number of failed Login attempts allowed box, type the maximum number of times users can fail their login attempts within the tracking period before they are locked out of the portal.

• In the Minutes to keep user account locked box, type the number of minutes users should remain locked out of the portal before they can attempt to log in again.
  
  Note: You can manually remove user account locks through the User Lock Manager.

Update Login Token Key

Login tokens are used by many internal processes for authentication. For security purposes, you should occasionally update the key used to generate login tokens by clicking Update.

The frequency at which you need to do this depends on portal usage and your company's required level of security. For a portal that gets moderate usage, you should only need to update the key twice a year.

Notes:

• When you update the key, outstanding tokens become invalid, but the portal issues new keys when the process is refreshed. For this reason, you should try to update the token during low-usage times.

• In general, users should not notice when you update the key. However, users that have the portal remember their password need to reset this option the next time they login to the portal.

Debug Mode

• Enable Experience Rules Debug Mode - This debug mode lets administrators troubleshoot any conflicts arising from experience rules affecting the user. It allows users to display experience rules debug messages on their My Pages. When you select this mode here, the option is available on the user's My Account | Display Options | Advanced Settings page. This page is only visible if you enable experience rules debug mode.

• Enable Portlet Errors Debug Mode - This debug mode lets administrators troubleshoot portlet errors. When you enable this debug mode, end users see additional error information if there is a problem with a portlet.