Understanding Sitecore Kick User Tool

Sitecore allows a restricted number of content author logins. The user licensing process in Sitecore is straightforward: every user logging into the Sitecore Client consumes a licensing slot, and the number of concurrent users must not exceed the allowed limit based on your license. Once it reaches the maximum limit, Sitecore will redirect the content author to "https://WEBSITE//sitecore/client/Applications/LicenseOptions/KickUser.aspx" page.

What is a Sitecore Content Author Login Limitation?

To verify the Sitecore content author login limit, please adhere to the steps provided below:

Open License.xml file
Search ‘SiteCore.EditorUser’ in the License file
Check <count> tag.

KickUser.aspx

Once the user reaches the maximum number of allowed users, it will be redirected KickUser.aspx page. On KickUser.aspx you will able to perform below two options:

1. Kick off a user from Sitecore

Once you will click on the "Kick off user" button, you will able to see all logged users and you can kick out the user via the "Kick off user" button.

NOTE:

When a user logs in to multiple browsers or devices, multiple entries will be visible on the KickUser page.
When a user is kicked out by another user, the kicked user can still continue their work until their ASPXAUTH cookie expires.

2. Increase the number of allowed users

In case your company holds an active and up-to-date Sitecore maintenance or subscription agreement, it is possible to augment the number of licensed users (concurrent users), even if your current license does not encompass these extra users.

DomainAccessGuard

The DomainAccessGuard class manages the active sessions for users who are authenticated and logged into Sitecore.

All DomainAccessGuard related functionality is available in Sitecore.Web.Authentication.DomainAccessGuard class in Sitecore.Kernel DLL.

DomainAccessGuard.Sessions will provide you all logged-in sessions detail.

DomainAccessGuard.Kick(sessionId) function allow to kick the user programmatically.

Expiration of Sessions for the Sitecore Client

AUTHENTICATION CLIENT SESSION TIMEOUT sets the duration, in minutes, for which Sitecore considers user authentication session tickets valid before expiring them. This setting is applicable only for users accessing the Sitecore Client when the license limits the number of concurrent editors.

Expired sessions will be automatically cleared when a new user attempts to log in and the maximum allowable concurrent editors have been reached. By default, the timeout is set to 60 minutes (1 hour).

<setting name="Authentication.ClientSessionTimeout" value="60" />

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