Challenge behavior
Click Set Systems Security > Configure Forgotten Password Settings to modify the challenge properties.
Select whether the user or the administrator defines challenge questions.
Users define their own questions
Select for users to provide their questions..
- Number of questions user sets up
- Enter the number of questions that the user must provide.
- Number of correct answers user must enter
- Enter the number of correct answers that the user must provide to gain access to the system.
Administrator provides predefined questions
Select the option to define the set of questions that the users must answer and the language in which the question is used. When the option is selected, the Specify Forgotten Password Question section opens.
- Specify Forgotten Password Question
- Click to expand this section to specify the question we want users to answer.
- New challenge question
- Enter the question we want users to answer and click Add.
- Locale
- Select the language in which the question is used and click Add.
- Challenge questions table
- The Challenge questions table contains the list of questions that we added and that we can choose to have users answer. To sort the table by a specific column, click the arrow in the column heading. The table contains these columns:
- Select
- Choose an existing question.
- Locale
- Displays the language used in the question.
- Question
- Displays the text of a question.
Click Remove to remove a selected question.
User has a choice of predefined questions?
- No, answer all questions
- Displays all predefined questions, which the user must answer correctly.
- Yes, user selects which questions to answer
- Displays the number of questions that the user selects and must answer correctly after forgetting a password. Type the number of questions that the user selects.
- No, answer a subset of questions that the system provides
- Displays a random subset of predefined questions, which the user must answer correctly after forgetting a password.
- Number of questions user sets up
- Enter the number of questions that the user configures.
- Number of correct answers user must enter
- Enter the number of questions that the user must correctly answer. This field is available, if the user must answer a subset of questions that the system provides.
For the new values to take effect, we must log out and log in again.
Parent topic: Forgotten password settings
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