SECURITY

Requiring an SSL connection to a database
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a security protocol that provides communications privacy and authentication for IBM® Lotus® Domino™ server tasks that operate over TCP/IP. You can require users to access a database using a secure SSL connection. You can also choose to require an SSL connection to a single database or to all databases on a server.

If the server is not configured to require an SSL connection, clients will be able to use either SSL or unsecured TCP/IP to connect to the server; for example, in a browser, by using HTTP (for non-SSL) or HTTPS (for SSL).

For more information about Internet client access to Domino servers and databases, see Name-and-password authentication for Internet/intranet clients.

To require an SSL connection to a database

1. Make sure you have Manager access in the database ACL.

2. From the Domino Administrator Server pane, select a server that stores the database(s) for which you want to require an SSL connection.

3. Click Files, and open the database from the Domino data directory.

4. Choose File - Application - Properties.

5. On the Basics tab, choose Web access: Require SSL connection.

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