lockpicker and touchdown

[NYGramps]

i installed touchdown on my droid x for my corporate email, but it seems that lockpicker doesnt pick up the exchange
is there anything out there that bypasses the pin log on???
so far Moxier worked fairly well, but i am not overly thrilled with it
with Moxier i bypassed the slide to unlock, and no pin was required.
i do prefer touchdown, but not at the expense of having to slide to unlock and use a pin
that sux bigtime

 

[jdbower]

The PIN requirement is regulated by your sysadmin, and probably for a good reason. Typically either email is important enough to have sensitive information, or not important enough to need access to 24x7.

The only annoying thing is my own personal security requirements for my phone need a much more strict password than corporate needs (I don't like the idea of someone stealing my phone and getting access to my data), so I do a slide unlock, enter my strong password, then a simple password for my email, luckily Touchdown does cache passwords briefly.

 

[Jet300]

i installed touchdown on my droid x for my corporate email, but it seems that lockpicker doesnt pick up the exchange
is there anything out there that bypasses the pin log on???
so far Moxier worked fairly well, but i am not overly thrilled with it
with Moxier i bypassed the slide to unlock, and no pin was required.
i do prefer touchdown, but not at the expense of having to slide to unlock and use a pin
that sux bigtime

The only time Touchdown will ask for a password will be upon first launching of the app after a reboot. After that you don't need to re-enter the password after sliding to unlock. I use SwitchPro Widget and the toggle to disable the slide lock works fine with Touchdown.

Do you by any chance still have your exchange email setup with the native mail application? If so, that is what is causing the password request. Delete the account from the native mail app and use Touchdown only.

This is how I have had my OG Droid and now Droid X setup since Froyo was originally released for the OG Droid last summer.... No PIN upon unlock here!

 

[jdbower]

The only time Touchdown will ask for a password will be upon first launching of the app after a reboot.

It's not quite that simple, configuring an Exchange server involves a myriad of knobs and buttons that the administrator has control over. Your Exchange admin may allow Touchdown to cache passwords indefinitely, but mine only allows it for a brief period. It also requires Touchdown, native support is not available. The entire purpose of Exchange is to move the control over security from the end user to the administrator, this is why I have a phone dedicated to work and another for play - once it hits my corporate network it becomes a corporate phone.