Locking and unlocking users

Let's start with an example. Tony Cook is a sales manager at Appiuss. He is trying to log in to Salesforce with his credentials but has forgotten his password and exceeded the maximum invalid login attempts set by his organization's password policies. As a result, his account gets locked. You can go to the user's detail page and in the login history list and check when the password lockout happened under Status.

Locking and unlocking users

Unlocking a user

To unlock a user, follow these steps:

  1. Navigate to Setup | Administer | Manage Users | Users.
  2. Navigate to the User page. In this case, Tony Cook, and click on the full name to go to the user's detail ...

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