Enables you to maintain security parameters in Web Recruitment, including the password format to enhance security. When a user creates a password, the password is checked against these settings for validity to ensure it is a strong password.

General

Minimum Length

Enter the minimum length of password required when a user creates a password. This must be at least four characters, but the recommended minimum setting is 8.

Expires (Minutes)

Enter the time in minutes, after which the automatically generated temporary password expires if it has not been changed by the user. The recommended setting is 60.

Generated Length

Enter the length of the temporary password that should be automatically generated. This must be between four and twenty characters, but the recommended minimum setting is 8.

Locked Account Template

Enter the email template to use when an account has been locked, or select one from the drop-down list.

Number of Invalid Sign-in Attempts

Enter the maximum number of invalid sign in attempts permitted before the user's account is locked. For example, if you enter 3, the user can make two invalid attempts to sign in without their account being locked. However, a third invalid attempt would lock their account.

Sign Out after Password Reset

Select this check box if you want a user signed out when their password is reset by Web Recruitment, they will then have to sign back in using the new password. If this check box is unselected, the user remains signed in when their password is changed.

Lock Duration (Minutes)

Enter the number of minutes for which the account should remain locked.

CAPTCHA Enablement

Select this check box to display the CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing Test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) image on the Account Registration page in the Web Recruitment website. When CAPTCHA is enabled, users registering on the website have to enter a set of characters that match a generated picture. Users can request a new picture. There is also an audio button for sight-impaired users, where users can click a button to hear a set of characters and then type them.

Note: If you enable CAPTCHA on a public-sector website, you will breach the level of accessibility designed for the website and make it difficult for users who are both hearing- and sight-impaired to register.

Password Format Help Text

Enter text to assist the user with the password format, which is displayed when a user is creating a new password after signing in with a temporary password.

Password Format Assist Text

Enter text to assist the user with the password format, which is displayed if an invalid password is entered.

Character Type Checks

Lowercase

Select this check box to indicate that a user's password should contain lowercase letters. It is recommended that this check box is selected.

Uppercase

Select this check box to indicate that a user's password should contain uppercase letters. It is recommended that this check box is selected.

Numeric

Select this check box to indicate that a user's password should contain numbers. It is recommended that this check box is selected.

Special

Select this check box to indicate that a user's password should contain special characters, that is all other characters such as & ( @ etc. other than spaces. It is recommended that this check box is selected.

Minimum Types Required

Enter the minimum number of character types that must be used in the password. This field is used in conjunction with the previous four check boxes. For example, if you enter 2 in this field and the Lowercase, Uppercase and Numeric check boxes are selected, the user's password must contain at least two of these character types to be valid. The recommended minimum setting is 3.

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