When a user changes the password of his/her e-mail account (Notes ID), does Domino automatically update/send a backup ID to ID Recovery database? Or a user has to send an email to the ID Recovery database with his/her new ID file attached? How does this all work?
I have a user just changed his password using Notes today 11/25, but his backup ID email in the ID Recovery database is still dated back in August. Apparently, his backup ID has not been updated yet.
Can anyone explain or know any link about the process?
Once the user accepts the recovery information and it is stored in the ID file then a backup is sent through.
When the password is changed, the recovery information doesn’t. Only during a certificate renewal, name change or other ID changes does the client send an updated ID. No user intervention is required.
You can recover the user’s copy of the ID file using the ID copy in the database, even if the passwords aren’t the same.
You have to remember that Lotus Notes is supposed to be a distributed environment.
That means that the the user.id that is on the server (if there is one) and the user.id that is local have nothing to do with each other.
Think about it. If it wasn’t that way, you would need to be connected to the server at all times–like other systems have to.
In Lotus Notes, you can work happily in a stand alone way (via Home or whatever) and not be connected to a server. So the user.id is local to where you are.
When you change the password in the user.id that is updated locally, it doesn’t get translated back to the server.
There is an exception to this, but you get the point.