RE: Distribution of Passwords

["Larremore, Lynda R." <larremol@pacificu.edu>]

Our university uses the E-mail address that are assigned to faculty,
staff, and students as an authentication method to access the proxy.  The
proxy authenticates the user and the user is then passed onto the
databases.

They do not have to enter a username/password to access the specific
database unless, of course, it's that one lone databases that does not
allow for IP recognition).

Lynda Larremore
Electronic/Information Services Coordinator
Harvey W. Scott Memorial Library
Pacific University
2043 College Way
Forest Grove, OR  97116
503-352-2102 (work)
503-352-2236 (fax)
larremol@pacificu.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: Jennifer Cassidy [mailto:jcassidy@westernu.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 12:11 PM
To: 'liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu'
Subject: Distribution of Passwords

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.

Jennifer Cassidy
Harriet K. & Philip Pumerantz Library
Western University of Health Sciences