Specifications

Chapter 8 Authentication Services
3. Check the checkbox to the left of the authentication service(s) to delete. To delete all external authentication services
on the page, check the checkbox to the left of Name at the top of the list.
4. Click Delete. A confirmation dialog box will appear.
5. Confirm or cancel the deletion.
8.1.1 DTX Control internal authentication service
To change the DTX Control internal authentication service account policies:
1. Click the Users tab.
2. Click Authentication Services in the top navigation bar. The User Authentication Services window will open.
3. Click Internal. The side navigation bar will change to include Internal at the top and, below the name, the information
you may define.
4. Click Account Policies. The Authentication Service User Account Policies - Internal window will open.
5. Specify the password policies for the authentication service:
a. Type a number (from 1-64) in the Minimum Password Length field, or click the arrows to select a number.
b. Check the Passwords Expire checkbox to require a user to change the password after a certain number of days.
Specify a number (from 1-365) in the Maximum Expiration (days) field, or select a number.
c. Select Passwords must contain both alpha and numeric characters if new passwords must contain at least one
letter and one number.
d. Select Passwords must contain both lower and upper case characters if new passwords must contain at least
one uppercase and one lowercase letter.
6. Specify the lockout policy for the authentication service:
To assign a specific number of user login attempts, check the Lockout users after invalid login attempts
checkbox, then continue with step a.
If you leave this checkbox unchecked, unlimited user login attempts will be allowed. Skip to the last step.
a. Type the number of allowable user login failures (from 1-25) in the Maximum Login Failures field, or select it from
the menu.
b. To permit user logins after a certain period of time, check the Automatically unlock users after the lockout period
checkbox. Specify the lockout period (in minutes) by typing a number from 1-1,440 in the Maximum Lockout
Period (minutes) field, or choose a value from the menu (1,440 minutes is equivalent to 24 hours).
If you leave this checkbox unchecked, locked user accounts must be manually unlocked by a
DTX Control administrator or user administrator.
See Unlocking User Accounts on page 78.
7. Click Save and then click Close. The User Authentication Services window will open.
To change custom field labels for user accounts that use internal authentication:
1. Click the Users tab.
2. Click Authentication Services in the top navigation bar. The User Authentication Services window will open.
3. Click Internal. The side navigation bar will change to include Internal at the top and, below the name, information you
may define.
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