[WEB4LIB] another remote authentication query

[Mark Pecaut]

On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 09:42:23AM -0800, Gregory  Sennema wrote:

> However, if I understand correctly, our IT is not wanting our users to
> go through a proxy, but rather when the local or remote user logs into
> the system, attached to their login file info (LDAP?) are the various

What do you mean by `logs into the system'?  I assume the system is
some campus authentication system.  How are they logging in?  HTTP?
Email?  VPN?  Without this information, the rest sounds like hokey-pokey.

> passwords for our research databases.  When the user, after being
> authenticated, links to one of our research databases, the id/password
> is automatically filled out behind the scenes (ip becomes irrelevant in
> this scenario).


-Mark