Environment
Novell Identity Manager 4.0
Novell Identity Manager Driver - Lotus Notes
Situation
When starting the Lotus Notes driver, it fails with the following error:
NotesPublicationShim: Notes error obtaining Session Object. ID = 4486. Message: Invalid user name/password. Retrying...
Resolution
If the internet password and normal password of the driver user is not the same, you will get an error:
NotesPublicationShim: Notes error obtaining Session Object. ID = 4486. Message: Invalid user name/password. Retrying...
on startup of the driver.
on startup of the driver.
This is because the driver cannot switch IDs on a server, so the driver creates a session with the driver-user directly but using the internet password.
To prevent this error the internet password of the driver user needs to be set in the domino directory and be the same as the user ID password.
To prevent this error the internet password of the driver user needs to be set in the domino directory and be the same as the user ID password.
Having the passwords the same allows support of 8.5.2 since the session object is created using a createSession(null, userString, passwordString). This causes internet access to be granted to the session if the password matches the Internet password in the user's Person record in the Domino Directory. This is explained in
http://www-12.lotus.com/ldd/doc/domino_notes/rnext/help6_designer.nsf/f4b82fbb75e942a6852566ac0037f284/5a8f8afb89d617f785256c54004d9eb4?OpenDocument
http://www-12.lotus.com/ldd/doc/domino_notes/rnext/help6_designer.nsf/f4b82fbb75e942a6852566ac0037f284/5a8f8afb89d617f785256c54004d9eb4?OpenDocument