The Metadirectory engine provided with Identity Manager 2 onwards added a new way of securing the passwords you need to use in your driver policies. The sample driver configuration shows an example.
One use for this feature would be to store a password for each of your Notes certifiers. For example, if you had certifiers for Human Resources, Engineering, and Marketing, you could use Named Passwords to securely store the password for each respective certifier ID file in your driver parameters. In the driver configuration, you would click the button and specify driver parameters something like this:
<cert-id-password display-name="Certifier Password" is-sensitive="true" type="password-ref">HR</cert-id-password>
<cert-id-password display-name="Certifier Password" is-sensitive="true" type="password-ref">Engineering</cert-id-password>
<cert-id-password display-name="Certifier Password" is-sensitive="true" type="password-ref">Marketing</cert-id-password>
When you return to the graphical interface for the driver parameters, each of these passwords has prompts to enter the password and confirm the password. These passwords are encrypted and stored with the driver configuration. You can reference these passwords by name in your driver policies.
See sample configuration on using Named Passwords in Section 5.6, Example Files. You can also find more information in the NotesCertifierSelectionSampleSS.xsl sample style sheet and in the NotesConfig21.xml file in the same section.