[WEB4LIB] more on remote authentication issue

[Jack Drost]

We are running ezproxy on a Pentium IV with a 700MHz processor and 256MB of
memory and a linux operating system and it gets a lot of use. Ezproxy is all
that is running on the machine and it serves us well. Ezproxy does not
require a lot of resources to run.

Jack Drost


Systems Librarian
UAH Salmon Library
824-7407
drostj at uah.edu 


-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib at webjunction.org [mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org]
On Behalf Of Sandra Cahillane
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 6:38 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] more on remote authentication issue






Thank you to all who responded so far.  This is very helpful.

Our first choice is to use ezproxy.  It sounds like we could do that on a
separate machine with linux.  The only problem is the pc we use.  Our old
server is an option but would it really be reliable enough to convert to the
proxy given that we just replaced it with the brand-new server?  It is also
an IBM but probably between 7 and 8 years old.  Is it worth it to try and
keep it in service?  Or should I try and wrangle a newer, older pc out of
our IT department (no offense to IT people, but I'm guessing you propably
know how this goes)?

I'm including my first message below for those of you who may not have seen
it:

"We just purchased a lovely, new IBM server with AIX on it.  Sadly, ezproxy
no longer maintains software for this platform.  We would very much like to
be our own proxy server for remote authentication.  I would love any and all
ideas and suggestions (or workarounds for ezproxy) that people could suggest
as possible solutions for remote authentication for a unix box for a
non-programmer systems administrator.

I am familiar with cgi-scripts.  Would a cgi-script work for remote access?
Primarily what I want is a seamless, one click authentication process for
users that will direct them to the correct page (database listing or remote
access logon page)  depending on whether they are on-campus or off."

Thanks again,

Sandy Cahillane
Systems and Reference Librarian
Bay Path College
Hatch Library
588 Longmeadow Street
Longmeadow, MA  01106
(413) 567-4529 or (413) 565-1376
fax-(413) 567-8345