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Domino Administrator / Security: Get rid of .ID files

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:34:14 +0000

Author: David Vasta
Tags: profile ID Files
Idea:

The cumbersome management of the ID files should be removed from Lotus Notes/Domino. IBM for years has promised to find a better way to manage these or remove the and use some type of global RADIUS server for authentication. User’s loss the ID files and they get out of sync with the certifier and cause many many hours of lost administration time every place I have been and worked with Lotus Notes.

Sametime / Contact Management: Make it easy to add Images of Poeple

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:40:08 +0000

Author: David Vasta
Tags: sametime contact
Idea:

There should be an easy way for Admins and owners of the NAB to place images in the NAB so that they show up in Sametime.

re: Make it easy to add Images of Poeple

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:16:06 +0000

Author: Michael Amberg
Comment: The feature needs to be able to both crop and resize*** images (***reduce the actual size (bytes) of an image file not just shrink its layout)

re: Get rid of .ID files

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:39:42 +0000

Author: Tim Brown
Comment: This functionality is coming in Notes 9

re: Get rid of .ID files

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:08:45 +0000

Author: Mika Heinonen
Comment: Notes ID's should work like Web ID's, all you need is a Person Document.

re: Get rid of .ID files

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:54:22 +0000

Author: Henry Ferlauto
Comment: Would be nice to see Lotus support RSA (Secure ID) tokens in the Notes client. They do with DWA.

Sametime / Other: IBM should provied an Open Space for all developers to share thier Sametime Plug-Ins with others

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:46:43 +0000

Author: David Vasta
Tags: sametime plug-in plugin
Idea:

Like Apple has space here you can share your open widgets I think IBM should have a web page here they share Sametime Plug-Ins. I would especially like for them to share the plug-ins they use to pitch Sametime with. While some small shops would like to have Sametime they don't have the resources to create their own and there are plenty or brilliant people out there willing to create plug-ins for the betterment of the community.

re: IBM should provied an Open Space for all developers to share thier Sametime Plug-Ins with others

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 23:17:20 +0000

Author: Mika Heinonen
Comment: I don't see any benefit that especially IBM should host this kind of service. There are thousands of better service providers out there who have faster response times. IBM has lost the focus on important things like Domino totally, but a new hope is coming with Domino 9.

re: IBM should provied an Open Space for all developers to share thier Sametime Plug-Ins with others

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 02:05:55 +0000

Author: Adam Gartenberg
Comment: A great idea, and this actually exists in for forms:

An open community designed for developers to post and download code: { Link }

A list of official plugins certified by IBM and provided by IBM Business Partners: { Link }

re: IBM should provied an Open Space for all developers to share thier Sametime Plug-Ins with others

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 02:06:16 +0000

Author: Adam Gartenberg
Comment: OK - That should have been "in two forms:"

re: Make it easy to add Images of Poeple

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:04:05 +0000

Author: Carl Tyler
Comment: Make it possible for people to change their own image from within the sametime client.

re: Get rid of .ID files

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:44:13 +0000

Author: David Vasta
Comment: You guys are mean. How can anyone thing the current .ID file is a great way to manage Domino and Users. You have to be kidding me. It was smart 10 years ago when security was all over the place but today with all the options we have the ID file is cumbersome and pointless and should be removed. It is coming in 9, I know becasue Ed Brill promised it to me...well no to me but said it was coming. Looking forward to it.

Notes Client / Mail: Remove the "Reply with Internet-Style History" button

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:54:43 +0000

Author: David Vasta
Tags: Reply Mail email endusers
Idea:

Did IBM do this just so you can annoy people with the ">' everywhere and to make it worse they give you and option in the preferences to change the charater. It's all pointless. RELPY and REPLY with HISTORY is fine.

re: Get rid of .ID files

Sat, 03 Nov 2007 18:31:04 +0000

Author: Thomas Bahn
Comment: The ID file is one of the most important security feature of the Notes client!

I think, the Notes/Domino platform is superior in security to many, many other systems BECAUSE of the two factor authentication. This way, it's much more difficult to steal someone's identity. This is, why in high-security areas you not only use one factor (PIN, key or whatever), but at least two.

In Notes it's not enough to get the user name (publicly available in most systems) and the password (through watching, searching for "notes", social engineering), but you have to get access to the ID file, too, which should be protected by file system rights.

Second, the personal private key is stored in the ID file - as are secret encryption keys. If you "get rid" of the ID file or it is stored in a central place like the Domino directory, everybody, who gets access to the password has also access to these keys.

Therefore my vote can only be "Demote"!

re: Get rid of .ID files

Sun, 04 Nov 2007 12:50:33 +0000

Author: Richie Schmid
Comment: I agree with thomas. it's an important part of the private/public key infrastructure

re: Get rid of .ID files

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 12:06:27 +0000

Author: David Camara
Comment: I think choice is always the best option, it would be nice to choose the type of authentication (Notes ID, Username, RSA ...) on a user basis, on registration for example or on the person document.

I have seen several companies where users have various copies of their ID files, with different passwords (some with the company default password), on different machines (sometimes on the network) and that can't be good for security so ID files are not all that great.

re: Get rid of .ID files

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 02:41:24 +0000

Author: Chris Whisonant
Comment: Let's see what's around the bend...

re: Get rid of .ID files

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 23:17:36 +0000

Author: Grant Lindsay
Comment: ID files are more secure (and so, not pointless.) However, they are very cumbersome. That should be improved.

re: IBM should provied an Open Space for all developers to share thier Sametime Plug-Ins with others

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:23:57 +0000

Author: David Killingsworth
Comment: I was just looking for such a plug-in repository today...which led me to come to ideajam to post the idea. I'm glad that you've beat me to it.

I'd like to add that I would like to see these plug-ins publishes at openntf.org.

Domino Server / Platforms: Support for Domino for MacOSX Server

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:56:47 +0000

Author: David Vasta
Tags: domino macosx support
Idea:

While Lotus contenues to tolerate slow and lacking Windows Server cycles, Apple contenues to put out a new and faster version of MacOSX Server every 14 - 18 months.

I would like to see Lotus Support fully and timley the MacOSX platform for Domino. It's stable, quick and mostly open.