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How to change account lockout duration and threshold for Orion Individual Accounts

The article covers information and process on how to change values for the duration and threshold lockout on Orion Individual Accounts

First published date

8/9/2021 11:29 AM

Last published date

8/9/2021 11:29 AM

Overview

In Orion Platform 2020.2.6, a new policy was introduced to Orion Individual Accounts for brute force protection. The article covers information and processes on how to change these values for the duration and threshold lockout on Orion Individual Accounts.

Product section

Orion Platform

Cause

N/A

Resolution

New Centralized Settings

Both the lockout time and maximum failed login attempts can be configured via Orion's Global settings page. These settings are named AccountLockoutDuration and AccountLockoutThreshold, respectively.

On your Orion Web Console, access the Global Settings page https://hostname/Orion/Admin/AdvancedConfiguration/Global.aspx
On the search bar type-in 'lockout' to isolate the settings for the brute force protection
Change the values to your preference

NOTE: Setting both values to '0' would have its disadvantages and would depict the purpose of the policy protection

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