Security Settings

To prevent brute force attacks on activations and author user login attempts, SOLO Server performs velocity checks on these actions which automatically lock things out after a specified number of failed attempts within a given time frame. The settings for these velocity checks can be accessed through the through the Setup menu by choosing the Security Settings option. The settings are as follows:

Activation Settings:

The following settings apply to the velocity check performed by the activation process. This check will reject any activation for a given License ID or IP address, with settings for each configured independently.

License Velocity Check Duration:

The duration in minutes of the failure velocity check by License ID as well as the lockout period. Specify 0 to disable LicenseID velocity checking.

License Velocity Check Count:

The failure count that should not be exceeded for the License ID velocity check.

IP Address Velocity Check Duration:

The duration in minutes of the velocity check by IP address as well as the lockout period. Specify 0 to disable IP address velocity checking.

IP Address Velocity Check Count:

The failure count that should not be exceeded for the IP address velocity check.

Activation Password Length:

The length of system generated license activation passwords. Must be between 8 and 15.

Author Login Settings:

The following settings apply to the velocity check performed by the author login process. This check will reject any user login for a given User ID or IP address. For this check, the same settings apply to both the User ID and IP address checks.

Author Login Velocity Check Duration:

The duration in minutes of the failure velocity check as well as the lockout period. Specify 0 to disable velocity checking.

Author Login Velocity Check Count:

The failure count that should not be exceeded for the velocity check.

Session Timeout:

The number of minutes of inactivity allowed before online sessions are timed out and the user is forced to log back in.