Password Lockout/Reset Policies

Self-Service Password Reset Policies

Note:  The ability to reset your password through self-service is only available to current employees and students.

 

PASSWORD REQUIREMENTS

    

 

ACCOUNT LOCKOUT POLICY

After 10 unsuccessful sign-in attempts with the wrong password, the user is locked out for one minute. Further incorrect sign-in attempts lock out the user for increasing durations of time.

 

PASSWORD RESET POLICY

Users can try only five password reset attempts within a 24-hour period before they're locked out for 24 hours.

Users can try to validate a phone number, send a SMS, or validate security questions and answers only five times within an hour before they're locked out for 24 hours.

Users can send an email a maximum of 10 times within a 10-minute period before they're locked out for 24 hours.

The counters are reset once a user resets their password.

 

ADMINISTRATORS DO NOT HAVE THE ABILITY TO UNLOCK A USERS ACCOUNT

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Article ID: 83238
Created
Wed 7/17/19 10:34 AM
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Wed 2/19/20 10:16 AM