Master Admin Account Lock for some time duration in Advanced Authentication

Products

• CA Advanced Authentication
• CA Strong Authentication
• CA Risk Authentication

Issue/Introduction

Is there a way to Lock CA Strong Authentication Master Admin account for certain time period?

 

Environment

Component: AuthMinder ( Arcot WebFort)

Risk Authentication

DB : Oracle

 

Resolution

Master Admin account can be locked for a certain time period. There is no GUI way of doing that and only possible through the Database Query update. Below is the query which can be run to lock Master Admin account for certain time frame. Please note that the Query is specific to Oracle Database and need to be modified accordingly for SQL server.

update aradminbasicauthuser set startlocktime=sysdate-1 where userid='MASTERADMIN' and orgname='MASTERADMIN';

update aradminbasicauthuser set endlocktime=sysdate+1 where userid='MASTERADMIN' and orgname='MASTERADMIN';

commit;