Authentication

The Domino® Users Connector impersonates as a Domino user in order to access the Domino Directory (Names and Address Book database). You can know about authentication through the information provided here.

The Domino Users Connector supports two authentication mechanisms – Internet Password authentication and Notes® ID file based authentication.

Internet Password Authentication – used with IIOP and Local Server sessions
This authentication mechanism uses the Domino user's Short Name and Internet password. The Domino user's Short Name and Internet password must be supplied as Connector configuration parameters Username and Password.

The Domino Users Connector uses this mechanism in order to create an Internet Session object for making local calls based on the Domino Directory. This authentication mechanism requires that a Domino Server is installed on the local machine.

Notes ID File Authentication – used with Local Client session
This authentication mechanism uses the currently configured default Notes ID file along with its password. A local client session is created using the password parameter. Access is granted if the value of this parameter matches the Notes user ID.

The currently configured default Notes ID file is a part of the Notes client configuration. Normally the Notes client stores the path to the currently configured default Notes ID file in the notes.ini file, so that when the next time Notes client starts it will use this Notes ID file by default.

The password of the Notes ID file must be supplied as a Connector configuration parameter Password.

The Domino Users Connector uses this authentication mechanism in order to create a Session object for making local calls based on the Notes user ID. A Domino server or Notes client must be installed locally.

This authentication mechanism can be used both on a Notes client machine and on a Domino Server machine. When this mechanism is used on a Domino Server machine the Server ID file is used. Normally Server ID files do not have passwords or have empty passwords; that is why you would normally leave the Password Connector configuration parameter blank. If, however, the Server ID file does have a password you should specify that password as the value for the Password Connector configuration parameter.