Android Enterprise - Samsung - Disable the ability of user to change Lock PIN

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Paul W
Trifords Ltd - T-A Autowindscreens Ltd

Is there a way to disabling the Set PIN in the samsung settings so that the Pin can only be changed in Admin mode or via SOTI?

The work around would be to have a scheduled script running to set the device to the desired PIN but I wondered if there was a way of stopping the user from changin git in the first place

3 years ago
SOTI MobiControl
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Raymond Chan Diamond Contributor
3 years ago

I can't recall I have ever seen such function on Samsung MDM api.   Your clever workaround is something simple enough to achieve more or less what you want.

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Rafael Schäfer
3 years ago

We do the same workaround here but because of other reasons.

Try following (in Soti Console):

- goto settings ... where you can enter/change the pin

- send the script identify_activity

- take a look into the logs 

- blacklist what is shown in the logs

Never tried that for the PIN.

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Paul W
3 years ago

Worth a try, I might be able to single it out

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Paul W
3 years ago

I tried to add it via Application Run Control but it didnt work,

When you open the setting page it reports the activity

(Current activity name: com.android.settings/.homepage.SettingsHomepageActivity)

then when you try and change the pin reports it as

(Current activity name: com.android.settings/.password.ChooseLockPassword)

But adding this to the blacklist didnt help

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ICMOD@SOTI
3 years ago

Hello Paul,

Thanks for your post! This sounds like a good implementation idea.

This is not currently a feature we have available within MobiControl. If this is a feature you would like us to add into MobiControl, you can contact SOTI Support (support@soti.net) to open a new case and raise this as a Feature Request.

Hope this helps!

Regards,

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