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Ektron CMS400.NET Administrator Manual

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You can control the following capabilities.<br />

Getting Started<br />

• ”Changing the Number of Unsuccessful Login Attempts” on<br />

page 7<br />

• ”Disabling the Login Attempts Feature” on page 9<br />

• ”Unlocking a Locked Account” on page 8t<br />

• ”Preventing CMS Users from Signing On” on page 9<br />

• ”Preventing All Users from Signing On” on page 9<br />

You control login security feature by changing the value of the<br />

ek_loginAttempts element in the web.config file. The following table<br />

summarizes your options.<br />

Value Description<br />

any number<br />

between 1<br />

and 254<br />

The number of times a user can try to log in before he is<br />

locked out.<br />

0 Lock out all users<br />

-1 Disable feature; unlock all locked users<br />

-2 Lock out CMS users only; membership users can still<br />

log in<br />

Changing the Number of Unsuccessful Login Attempts<br />

By default, if a user unsuccessfully tries to log in five times, the<br />

following error message appears: The account is locked. Please<br />

contact your administrator. Afterwards, even if the user enters<br />

the correct password, he is locked out, and the error message<br />

reappears.<br />

You can change the text of the error message in the resource file. To learn about<br />

editing the resource file, see ”Procedure for Translating Workarea Strings” on<br />

page 477<br />

To change the number of unsuccessful login attempts that occur<br />

prior to lockout, edit the value of the ek_loginAttempts element in<br />

<strong>Ektron</strong> <strong>CMS400.NET</strong> <strong>Administrator</strong> <strong>Manual</strong>, Version 5.5 for .Net 2.0, Revision 1 7

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