General Tab
The General tab allows administrators to define global settings with respect to a specific policy.
For each policy, RapidIdentity Portal assigns a fixed, unique ID. The policy Name is the only required field.
Field Name | Description |
|---|---|
Enabled | Enables or disables the challenge policy. |
Default Policy | Enables or disables this policy as the default policy. RapidIdentity Portal requires a default policy and only supports a one default policy at a given time. Default policies cannot have a group DN restriction associated with them. |
No Challenge | Users assigned to this policy are not required to answer challenge questions. They will also not be able to use the forgotten password system. |
User Can Skip Setup | If selected, users are allowed to bypass the challenge setup process. Otherwise, all users are required to set up challenge questions and may not move past the setup screen until they have completed the challenge setup process. |
Enforce Unique Answers | If selected, users are allowed to bypass the challenge setup process. Otherwise, all users are required to set up challenge questions and may not move past the setup screen until they have completed the challenge setup process. |
Helpdesk Challenge Questions to Setup | The minimum number of user-defined questions that must be setup for use by the Helpdesk to verify the user's identity. |
Minimum Admin Defined Questions to Setup | Admin defined questions are those set up by an administrator compared to questions that are user defined. This field defines the minimum number of admin questions that a user must answer when setting up their challenge set responses. |
Admin Questions to Ask for Authentication | Required Questions supply the question list . If the number of questions defined as required is lower than the total defined here, then random questions will be drawn from the remaining pool of questions until the total question count is satisfied. |
Allow User-Defined Questions | Enables or disables the use of user-defined questions. |
Minimum User Defined Questions to Setup | This field is only available if Allow user-defined Questions is enabled The minimum number of User Defined Questions that the user must answer when setting up their challenge set responses. |
User Defined Questions to Ask for Authentication | This field is only available if Allow user-defined Questions is enabled The number of random user-defined Questions to ask when authenticating. This value must be less than or equal to the defined number of Minimum User Defined Questions To Setup. |
Minimum User Defined Questions Length | This field is only available if Allow user-defined Questions is enabled The minimum allowable length of responses to User Defined Questions. |
Maximum User Defined Questions Length | This field is only available if Allow user-defined Questions is enabled The maximum allowable length of responses to User Defined Questions. |
Minimum Answer Length | The minimum allowable length of responses to Admin Defined Questions. |
Maximum Answer Length | The maximum allowable length of responses to Admin Defined Questions. |
Oldest Allowed Responses | All Questions older than this date will be deemed as invalid and users will be prompted to provide updated responses at their next login. |
Set to Now (button) | This button “expires” all existing responses to Challenge Questions and requires the user update all of their responses. The policy must be saved in order for the expired response to affect the users. |