User Authentication Strategies in Multi-Institutional Environments > OhioLINK > Authentication system

Technical Process

1. Authentication form data processed by CGI script
2. Credentials checked a cache of patron records. If not found, requested from campus ILS
3. Patron record added to cache
4. One-way hash used to create security token cookie
5. Cookie added to "valid cookies" database
6. Cookie and a page with a 'META refresh' tag is sent to browser