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Rob-B
Active Contributor
7 years ago

Turning off captcha

Hi,

 

I need to disable captcha on our client machines. I understand the only way to do this is to change our password?

 

Before I do this how, will it affect our remote clients. Will they all need the new password inputting after we change it?

 

If the answer is yes, is there a password retention policy in place as I can change it then change it back. We can't change the password on client machines as they are geographically remote.

 

Thanks,

 

Rob

9 Replies

  • miranda18's avatar
    miranda18
    Active Contributor
    6 years ago

    miranda18 wrote:

    AshC wrote:

    Rob-B  I'm afraid you cannot disable captcha for specific computers.  If all of the remote clients are logging in with the walmart1 credentials this can trigger the captcha action because it appears as suspicious, but you might try logging with User Profiles instead.


    Thank you for your response. I had a similar query like Rob


    I tried with User Profiles and it is working well.

  • miranda18's avatar
    miranda18
    Active Contributor
    6 years ago

    AshC wrote:

    Rob-B  I'm afraid you cannot disable captcha for specific computers.  If all of the remote clients are logging in with the same credentials this can trigger the captcha action because it appears as suspicious, but you might try logging with User Profiles instead.


    Thank you for your response. I had a similar query like Rob

  • suan's avatar
    suan
    New Contributor
    6 years ago

    Exactly, contradicts statement.  No real help especially when the client can't display captcha

     

  • AshC's avatar
    AshC
    Retired GoTo Contributor
    7 years ago

    Rob-B  Changing the login password will not turn off captcha.  I'm sorry if this is affecting your workflow, but the security function is mandatory.

     

    ** There are no limits in place that I know of, limiting the passwords you can use (as long as they fit the basic pw requirements).

  • Rob-B's avatar
    Rob-B
    Active Contributor
    7 years ago

    As I understand it the only way to turn off captcha is for us to change our password, this will then disable captcha automatically.

     

    What I'm unsure of is what will happen to the client machines if I change our password and then change it back straight away. I also can't find any documentation as to whether there's a password policy in place that will prevent this (remember last x passwords)

     

    I need absolute certainty and a full understanding as I don't want to lose remote connectivity to hundreds of machines if it goes wrong.

  • AshC's avatar
    AshC
    Retired GoTo Contributor
    7 years ago

    Rob-B  Changing the password won't affect captcha, as far as I know.  Regarding the lockout, that would only occur if you had to communicate a new password to all users suddenly, right? 

  • Rob-B's avatar
    Rob-B
    Active Contributor
    7 years ago

    I may not have explained myself clearly. We use one username and password, all clients old and new use the same username and password.

     

    We wish to globally turn off captcha which means changing our password as I understand it. Before I do this and potentially lock us out of all of our remote machines I need to fully understand what happens when we change the password.

  • AshC's avatar
    AshC
    Retired GoTo Contributor
    7 years ago

    Rob-B  I'm afraid you cannot disable captcha for specific computers.  If all of the remote clients are logging in with the same credentials this can trigger the captcha action because it appears as suspicious, but you might try logging with User Profiles instead.