Enabling programs that store IDs in databases to use a vault
You can enable Notes® API programs that can store Notes IDs in databases to use an ID vault. Doing this allows the users of such programs, for example, iNotes® or Notes Traveler users, to take advantage of the ID management features that an ID vault provides. The users' mail servers must run Domino® 8.5.1 or higher.
About this task
When this feature is enabled for iNotes or Notes Traveler users, they can:
- Decrypt incoming mail messages without manually importing Notes ID files into their mail databases
- Change passwords on their ID files and use the new passwords automatically to perform secure mail operations
- Get their passwords reset in the ID vault by someone with password reset authority and use the new passwords automatically to perform secure mail operations
When a copy of a Notes ID file is in both a mail database and the ID vault, synchronization of the two copies happens automatically when necessary as soon as a user provides a password to perform a secure mail operation. Additionally, iNotes users can synchronize the two ID file copies manually if they enable the ID Vault Sync option in iNotes Security Preferences.
Use the following steps to assign users of programs that store IDs in databases to an ID vault.
Procedure
- Create and configure an ID vault. Assign the ID vault to a policy that is used by iNotes or Notes Traveler users.
- Click the ID vault tab in the Security Settings Policy document.
- In the field Allow Notes-based programs to use the Notes ID vault, select Yes.