Sign in and Time-out Security

When a user attempts to sign in to PeopleSoft, he or she enters a user ID and a password on the PeopleSoft Signon page. If the ID and password are valid, PeopleSoft connects the user to the application, and the system retrieves the appropriate user profile.

If the user attempts to sign in during an invalid sign in time as defined in the user's security profile, he or she is not allowed to sign in. A sign in time is an adjustable interval during which a user is allowed to sign in to PeopleSoft. For example, if a given sign in time is Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. for a set of users, those users cannot access a PeopleSoft application on Saturday or on Friday at 6:05 p.m. If a user is signed in when the sign in period expires, PeopleSoft signs the user out automatically.

After signing in, a user can stay connected as long as the sign in time allows and as long as the browser does not sit idle for longer than the time-out interval. A time-out interval specifies how long the user’s machine can remain idle—no keystrokes, no SQL—before the PeopleSoft system automatically signs the user out of the application.

You specify both the sign in times and time-out interval using PeopleTools Security.

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Other time-out intervals, unrelated to security, are controlled by your web server and by PeopleSoft Pure Internet Architecture components.