By default, all content downloaded from M-Business Server to M-Business Client can be freely accessed from a mobile device. To make downloaded content more secure, you can require your users to enter a password to access on-device content. When M-Business Client password protection is enabled, it works as follows:
The M-Business Client password protection setting applies globally to all content downloaded from a particular installation of M-Business Server.
Each user must enter the password that is associated with the user ID in the M-Business Administrator Console each time that M-Business Client starts on the mobile device.
Because of platform differences, Palm OS users will have to enter a password more often than Microsoft OS users—Palm OS only allows one application to run at a time, so each time the user switches to another application, M-Business Client is restarted. Palm OS users will also have to reenter the password after the device has been in sleep mode.
Users are not required to reenter a password after a period of inactivity—except after a Palm OS device has entered sleep mode.
There is no way to require users to change the password periodically.
Enable password protection of on-device content in the sync.conf configuration file, by setting PasswordProtectClient to TRUE. See Editing configuration files and Sync.conf file settings.
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