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Re: Authorized Users Question
On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Peter Graham, RUL wrote: > But Rutgers users coming from home via aol, or borrowing a > machine on their visit to Champaign-Urbana, are out of luck, for their > link to the JSTOR page will be seen as originating from a non-subscribing > (let's say) site. > > So Tony is quite right; we have a problem. --pg Our Systems Librarian has put together a successful workaround for this, as nearly 15% of our student body users are coming from remote sites. Here's her description: "We use Expect to get the patrons, and a perl script to generate the dbm database, and then the "satisfy any" directive with AuthDBMUserFile with the apache config. There is a good article in Apache Week (which is where we got the idea for doing this) at http://www.apacheweek.com/issues/96-11-22 -- DBM User Authentication." John Creech Electronic Resources Librarian & Asst. Head of Reference | Central Washington University Library | 400 E. 8th Ave. | Ellensburg, WA 98926 | 509-963-1081 | jcreech@mumbly.lib.cwu.edu | personal mail=jcreech@ellensburg.com personal pages=larry.ellensburg.com/~jcreech
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