Getting in¶
2 screens.
Sign in¶
the first screen
Where everybody starts. A card on an empty page with two boxes.
What you see¶
A centred card headed Consoletium, with the company name beneath it, then two boxes and one button. If you are already signed in you never see this screen — the system takes you straight to the home page.
Neither box has a printed caption; the grey words inside them are the caption. The first is your email address, the second your password.
Under the button, in grey, the system prints its own lockout policy, fetched fresh each time, so what you read is what is actually enforced: ten wrong attempts in fifteen minutes locks the account for fifteen. An administrator can unlock it without changing your password.
Fields¶
| Field | What goes in it |
|---|---|
| Email (grey text in the box) | Your work email address. Auto-capitalisation and spell-check are switched off. Marked up so your browser offers to save the pair. |
| Password | Masked as you type. |
Buttons¶
| Button | When you can use it | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Sign in | Always. Reads Signing in… and is greyed while it works. | Signs you in and opens the home dashboard. If it fails, the reason appears in red just above the button, in the server's own words — so a locked account says it is locked rather than "wrong password". |
Rules this screen enforces¶
- Counting is per email address, not per computer. Moving to another machine or network does not clear a lockout.
- While locked, the account refuses even the correct password. It clears itself after fifteen minutes.
- Every attempt, successful or failed, is written to the sign-in record with the time, the address it came from and the browser. The password itself is never recorded, not even on a failure — a failed attempt very often contains a real password with a typo in it.
Choose your password¶
appears by itself, the first time
Appears in place of the whole system the first time you sign in with a password somebody else chose. There is no way past it.
What you see¶
A card headed Choose your password, naming you, and explaining that the password you have was set by an administrator and must be replaced before you continue.
Three boxes, and live advice underneath them as you type — how many more characters are needed, or that the two new entries do not match — before you press anything.
There is also a Not you? Sign out link, for somebody sitting at a colleague's screen.
Fields¶
| Field | What goes in it |
|---|---|
| Password you were given | The one the administrator told you. |
| New password (8 characters or more) | The number shown is the live minimum from the server. |
| New password again | Must match exactly. |
Buttons¶
| Button | When you can use it | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Save and continue | Only when the current password is filled in, the new one is long enough, and the two new entries match. Reads Saving… while it works. | Sets your password and lets you into the system. It ends every other session opened with the old password but not the one you are using, so succeeding does not sign you out. |
Rules this screen enforces¶
- The rule is eight characters. Nothing else — spaces, punctuation, another language and whole sentences are all allowed. There is no expiry and no character mixture required.
- The server returns every broken rule at once, so nobody discovers the policy one attempt at a time.
- You may see an administrator screen asking for twelve characters and a mixture. That wording is stricter than what is enforced; it is an error on that screen, not a second policy.