Adding or removing vault administrators

Vault administrators can add and remove other vault administrators, add and remove vault replicas, delete IDs from a vault, mark IDs inactive, restore inactive IDs, and delete a vault. When you create a vault, you must specify at least one vault administrator. However, specifying more than one vault administrator is recommended for administrative backup.

About this task

To be added as a vault administrator, a user must have Administrators access to the server that is open in the IBM® Domino® Administrator. You can specify individual names only, not group names.

Note: A vault administrator assigned to the Auditor role in the vault database ACL can extract an ID from a vault to gain access to a user's encrypted data.

Procedure

  1. Open the Domino Administrator and the and click the Configuration tab.
  2. Click the Security > ID Vaults view and select the vault document of the vault you are managing.
  3. Click Tools > ID Vaults > Manage, and then select the task Add or remove vault administrators.

Results

The names of vault administrators are added to the vault database ACL and to the vault document in the Security > ID Vaults view of the Domino Directory.