Password Options

If you are logged in as the Sage 50 Administrator, you can choose to have passwords automatically expire in a specified number of days or weeks. Three days before the time limit you set is reached, users will receive a message upon logging in Sage 50 that they must reset their password.

From the User Security window, select the Password Options button.

Passwords expire after: Check this box if you want users to periodically reset their passwords. Then, specify the number of weeks or days passwords will last before they must be reset. (This is calculated based on your computer's system date.)

Automatically lock out users...: You can choose to automatically lock users out when they unsuccessfully try to log on. If you choose to do this, you can also specify how many times they try before being locked out.

If you choose to lock users out after unsuccessful login attempts, you can choose to let them log in again after a specified time interval, or make it mandatory that the Administrator must unlock them. Administrators will always be able to log in again after 5 minutes no matter what option is set here. There may be tasks that can only be performed by an Administrator and it could be a problem if the Administrator is locked out for a long period of time. This also prevents problems that could arise if an Administrator must unlock locked out users, but there is only one Administrator and he or she is locked out.

Users cannot reuse their previous four passwords: Check this box to prevent users from using a password they have used for their last four passwords. Implementing this policy makes it more difficult for someone to access your data, in case they knew or had obtained a recent password. It also helps with PCI compliance.