proxy servers and authentication

Sun Jan 16 14:28:13 EST 2000

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>   3) proxy servers and authentication
>         by Linda Herman <lherman at medaille.edu>
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> Topic No. 2
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> Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 10:50:36 -0800 (PST)
> From: Ruth Hartman - Ventura County Library <rhartman at rain.org>
> To: web4lib at webjunction.org
> Subject: Cyberpatrol
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> Cyberpatrol is giving us problems when used with Fortres or Windows
> NT.  In order to change the setting from "youth" to "adult" or vice versa,
> we need to logoff and logon as another user.  Has anybody found a less
> drastic solution?
> 
> Is there another filter comparable to Cyberpatrol (compatible for library
> use) that you would recommend which works well with Fortres and Windows
> NT?
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> Topic No. 3
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>From: Linda Herman <lherman at medaille.edu>
>Our library - Medaille College in  Buffalo, NY - is hoping to provide
>full off-campus access for our students and staff, to our databases and
>indexes through a proxy server. Can anyone recommend proxy server
>software that uses IP Authentication to provide this access? 

We use and are very satisfied with EZProxy from Useful Utilities.  
Easy to set up, works smoothly and does not require any 'proxy server' 
setup from the patron.  The way we have it set up, the proxy server 
address is embedded into the URL for the restricted database.  The 
server looks at the incoming connection and checks to see whether 
it is an on-campus (allowed) or off-campus IP address.  

If it's an on campus address, the user's connection goes through
without interruption.  If it's off-campus, the user is prompted for
their 
barcode number (we chose to use just the barcode numbers, but could have 
used both name and barcode number or other types of login/password 
combinations.)  For more information look at the vendor's website:
http://www.usefulutilities.com

We did look around a bit before getting this product. Some of the 
competing software is much more expensive.

Stacy Pober
Information Alchemist
Manhattan College Libraries
spober at manhattan.edu
raingoddess at juno.com