Re: Distribution of Passwords

[Tom Williams <twilliam@bbl.usouthal.edu>]

We downloaded student/faculty records from university administration files
and used that info.  The passwords were automatically generated using the
student/faculty IDs.  If you need further technical info on how this was
done let me know and I'll hook you up with our systems guru.

-- 
Thomas L. Williams, AHIP
Director, Biomedical Libraries and
 Media Production Services
University of South Alabama
College of Medicine
Mobile, Al 36688-0002
tel. (251)460-6885
fax. (251)460-7638
twilliam@bbl.usouthal.edu

On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Jennifer Cassidy wrote:

> We recently set up a proxy server to allow remote access to our electronic
> resources. My question to the list is how do you distribute passwords to
> faculty and students? Prior to the proxy server I e-mailed passwords for
> our databases to the faculty and offered passwords to our distance
> students only, sometimes through e-mail and sometimes over the phone. I
> remember when I was in college we received the proxy passwords in class
> from an instructor, never through e-mail. Just wondering what most
> libraries are doing.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Jennifer Cassidy