External User Settings
Disable external user creation
This option disables external user creation for all users, including administrators. If this option is turned on, the Users → External Users page on the left menu will disappear for all users.
This option is useful when you don't want your users to create temporary accounts and share files with people outside your organization.
The options below will be inactive when this option is active.
Disable external user creation by users
Specifies if users can create external user accounts or not. Please note that administrators are still able to create external user accounts. If this option is turned on, users will not see the Users → External Users page on the left menu.
This option is useful when you don't want your users to create temporary accounts and share files with people outside your organization.
Disable external user expiration
This option controls whether external user accounts should have an expiration date or not. When enabled, the external user accounts creation dialog will no longer require users to select an expiration date for the new account. Also the system will disallow editing the expiration date for existing external users.
Disable editing external user expiration date by users
Use this setting if you wish to control the expiration time of external user accounts created by your users. For example, the above configuration ensures that your users can't create external user accounts that are valid for more than a day. Users will also be unable to edit the expiration date for owned external user accounts.
Default external user expiration period
The default period after which a external user account is permanently removed from the system.
In case there are any existing guests created they will not be able to login after this option is enabled.
Limit login attempts for External Users
This option enables the user lockout feature for External Users. When enabled, It will lockout external users, If they fail to authenticate before reaching the configured maximum amount of login attempts. The lockout time is depending on Lock account for (minutes) configuration field.
| Setting | Description |
|---|---|
| Login attempts allowed before the account is locked | Number of failed login attempts that can be done before the account will be locked. |
| Lock account for (minutes) | If the number of failed login attempts is higher than the predefined number, the account will be locked for X minutes |
| Reset failed login attempts counter after (minutes) | 0 - Counter is never reset X - Counter resets after X minutes. |
Enable Restriction of Maximum External User Account
Administrators can utilize this setting to restrict the maximum number of external user account creations per user, customizing the external user account creation limit by using the Maximum Number of External User Accounts Allowed input.