Customizing disclaimers or other authentication replacement messages involves changing the text of the disclaimer message, and possibly the overall appearance of the message.

Disclaimers are useful in many situations. Often companies find it useful to brand the disclaimers with their specific company policy text, logo, and design. One example of this is at an Internet cafe where customers pay for usage and must accept terms of usage before accessing the internet. The cafe benefits from a customized disclaimer that alerts the customer to their online policies. The same is true for other authentication replacement messages such as the login page.

Changing the disclaimer at System > Config > Replacement messages is not the same as selecting to customize a disclaimer used in a policy. The System > Config location is the default message that all disclaimers inherit. The security policy location is a customized disclaimer that inherits the default format for the disclaimer message, but then can be customized for this policy.