Authenticate to custom application

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I have an application in which every user has a ‘CustomerProfile’ document (not a Notes profile doc) which contains background info such as name, address, etc.

Rather than creating a separate document per user in a cascaded address book, I wanted to add a password field to this customer profile document and point directory assistance to this database.

  1. Which view is used in authentication?

  2. Must the password be stored in a special field name (HTTPPassword)? or can the password field be referenced in the appropriate view column?

  3. Must the username be stored in a particular field name and if so, what is the name? OR is it a function of the view (username can be contained in any field as long as the correct view shows the username in the correct column?)?

  4. Does Domino require that the password be encrypted? If the password is encrypted can the doc still be edited from a browser? Is the encryption lost by editing through the browser?

Thanks in advance,

Marc Robson

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Subject: authenticate to custom application

This strategy is ill advised and just will not work as you have described. Why not just use a cascaded address book? Is this related to other issues such as confidentiality?

You will spen a lot of time, energy and sweat to implement your approach instead of using the built in tools provided by ND6 (and, this will not bypass the need to have CALS for these customers).

It would be very easy to just run an agent to create the documents in the cascaded address book.