Paul Mooney’s article on Lotus Domino ID VaultCourtesy:

http://www.pmooney.net/pmooney/pmooneynet.nsf/d6plinks/PMOY- 7HUEHA

Sneak peak - the Domino 8.5 id vault

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This, in short, is a feature that will have Domino administrators, help desk staff and help desk managers dancing in the aisle at Lotusphere. While playing aroundwith the beta, I setup and configured the id vault and thought I would post somescreenshots/thoughts. And, of course its a beta, so what you see here may not bewhat you get!

It requires Notes 8.5 on the server and client.

Im not going to go into details on how it works just yet, but I had it up and runningin about 10 minutes in a lab.

Administrators can create one, or multiple vault databases to store passwords,and assign id files created by specific Organisation units to the databases.Admins have to also be assigned rights to reset passwords, and these rights canbe vault specific.

From a users' perspective, what does the id vault let you do. Well, two simplethings at the moment.1 - It allows you to change your password on your Notes client, and that, in turnmeans your password is changed on any other copy of your id file from now on.

2 - It allows you to easily get your password reset.

From an administrator's perspective, it gives us the functionality to:

Keep an storage of id files in an encrypted database on the server. These id filesare provisioned to the notes clients upon logon (i.e. the id file is sent down to theclient). When a user changes his password, the id file goes up to thevault/database with the new password, so if he logs on from another machine, theupdated id file is sent down (ergo - password syncing accross Lotus Notesclients).

Have custom, policy based information given to users telling them how to ask tohave their password reset.

Reset the password in two clicks.

Here are some pictures of what the user can see:Note the Forgotton password button! We can give customised messages to the