[WEB4LIB] EZProxy

[Raymond Wood]

I missed the 'context' of the original post, so this suggestion may
or may not be applicable to your circumstances.  Having said that you
may be interested in an out-of-the-box, turnkey solution that runs on
Linux called esmith.  Very well done and extremely user-friendly.  I've
had non-geeks claim they had it up and running in 15 minutes.  Linux for
the New Millenium?  :)

The cost is free (like most decent Linux software), and there is an option
for fee-based support.  (Canadian talent too :)

See http://www.esmith.com/ for more info.

Hope that helps,
Raymond

On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 03:35:47PM -0700, Mark Jordan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We use EZProxy and I agree with Mark Pecaut -- it's really nice from the
> user's perspective. However, since every resource you are authenticating
> has to be entered into the ezproxy.cfg configuration file, you can spend a
> lot of time maintaining it.
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> Mark Jordan
> Librarian / Analyst, Systems Division
> W.A.C. Bennett Library, Simon Fraser University
> Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6, Canada
> Phone (604) 291 5753 / Fax (604) 291 3023
> mjordan at sfu.ca / http://www.sfu.ca/~mjordan/
> 
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