Expired ID files in the NAB

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I am setting up Notes Client 6.0.1 in our existing R5 environment. When I do a fresh install for an existing user, I no longer get the option to identify the user by their ID file, the only option is to type in the user’s name, and the setup seems to assume there will be a valid ID in the person document for that user. In our case, many NAB ID’s have expired or have been removed or do not have a known password, and the setup process fails.

Any ideas on a workaround, either a) how to attach a good ID file into the person doc, or b) how to get R6 client setup to refer to an offline ID file?

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Subject: Expired ID files in the NAB

ND6 it first looks for an ID file in the Person doc, only if there is no ID will you get an option to browse.Your workaround (a) will work, remove the existing ID and attach the good one, or remove them and browse to a good file.

This is a good lesson on why not to keep ID files in Person docs.

Nicola

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Subject: RE: Expired ID files in the NAB

Yep, removing the ID from the NAB worked OK. Thanks all for the contributions.

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Subject: RE: Expired ID files in the NAB

Thanks, I did try removing the ID and it still wouldn’t work, maybe it was just a caching thing. I’ll try it again and see what happens.

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Subject: Expired ID files in the NAB

I believe when you recertify someone it updates the ID in their Person document, but I’m not completely sure. We don’t store ID files in the NAB so I don’t have any way to test it.

I do support a client who stores ID files in the NAB, and I wrote an agent that went through and ripped all the ID files out of the Directory. Then the R6 install prompted for the ID file. It would be nice if there was a way to get R6 to prompt for an ID without having to go through all that.

In general it’s a bad idea to store ID files in the NAB because they can easily be compromised. Search this forum (or the R5 version) and you will see numerous examples.

– Charles

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Subject: RE: Expired ID files in the NAB

At registration time, you choose NOT to store the ID file in the directory. Then you don’t have to go remove anything afterwards.