Admin Login Security


SureLock offers following admin related features. Some of these features require lockdown device that needs to be enrolled in SureMDM.

  • Admin Login Security - Select this option to enable Admin Login Security features.
  • Block Admin Access after loading SureLock - When this feature is enabled, access to SureLock Admin Settings will be blocked after loading SureLock. The only way to access SureLock Admin Settings is to reboot the device and tap for 5 times while loading.
  • Send Mail to SureMDM - This option will be greyed out if the locked device is not enrolled in SureMDM. Once this feature is enabled, the admins get email notifications when the user tries to access SureLock Admin Settings and fails.
  • Block login until reboot - Enable this option to reboot the device to access SureLock Admin Settings, when the user exceeds the number of failed attempts specified in Login Threshold.
  • Block Login for a specified time - Enable this option to block the SureLock login for a specified time that is set in the Set Prevent Login Time, when the user exceeds the number of failed attempts specified in Login Threshold.
  • Block Login until SureMDM notifies - Enable this option to block access to SureLock Admin Settings when the user exceeds the number of failed attempts specified in Login Threshold. SureLock will block access to SureLock Admin Settings until the admins use SureMDM to push the grant login access run script to the device.

       A run script job with the following command should be pushed to the device to grant login access.  

  1. For Blank passwordam broadcast -a com.gears42.surelock.COMMUNICATOR -e "command" "allowlogin"
  2. For Other passwordsam broadcast -a com.gears42.surelock.COMMUNICATOR -e "command" "allowlogin" -e "password" "0000"
  • Login Threshold - Use this option to set value for the maximum number of failed attempts by the device users, after which the set features under Admin Login Security gets triggered.
  • Send Daily Login Report - Once this option is enabled, SureLock will send daily login report for successful and failed Attempts to SureMDM.
  • Send At - Set the time for the Daily Login Report to be sent to SureMDM Web Console.

Note: Users will not be able to use this feature in the trial version.