00u115tq2bcqV3sKr351.5645214289422644E12 (Customer) asked a question.
I am interested to know if there is a way to display a warning that in X number of login attempts, the user account will be locked out. i.e., "You will be locked out after {x} more failed login attempts"
I dived into https://github.com/okta/okta-signin-widget/blob/master/packages/%40okta/i18n/src/properties/login.properties and couldn't find anything that seemed to fit the bill.
TIA!
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Hi @00u115tq2bcqV3sKr351.5645214289422644E12 (Customer) , Thank you for reaching out to the Okta Community!
There is currently no feature in Okta that would allow you to display the number of failed attempts to the end-user.
As an Okta Admin, you can go to Okta Admin Dashboard→ Security→ Authentication→ Password and configure a password policy with a specific number of attempts before lock-out and you can also choose the "Show lock out failures" option. But this will not show the end-users how many attempts they have left. It will only inform them that they are locked out. More details about password policies can be found here: https://help.okta.com/en/prod/Content/Topics/Security/policies/configure-password-policies.htm
Hope this helps!
Hi Mihai, thanks for the prompt reply. In that case, is there a message I can modify when the login is rejected that just says a blanket statement akin to "Invalid username or password. After 5 failed login attempts, your account will be locked." ?
There might be. Looking at the following article https://developer.okta.com/docs/guides/custom-widget/main/#modify-strings → seems like you can change the strings for the failed attempt.
My advice would be to reach out to devforum.okta.com and take advantage of their expertise.
Otherwise maybe look into Okta Admin Dashboard→ Customizations→ Other→ "Username & Password Fields" → "Password info tip" and edit that to say something like "You have a total of X attempts" - but it might be confusing to the end-users if does not do a countdown.
All that being said, I don't really recommend this approach from a security stand point, as it lets potential hackers know how many times they can try before raising suspicion.