American Library Association Annual Conference 2002
June 15th, 2002
User Authentication Strategies in Multi-Institutional Environments > Overview of Proxy Servers > Proxies for remote resource access
Authentication step
- This is the most difficult step. How do we allow only authorized users to access the proxy server, and consequently the remote databases?
Sources for authentication
- Integrated Library Systems
- Barcode recognition
- Flat-file username/password
- Login test against POP/IMAP servers
- LDAP directory service
- Kerberos, Netware NDS, Microsoft Networking