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- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 14:05:25 LCL
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- From: solrccc@GSVMS2.CC.GASOU.EDU
- Subject: Re: passwords
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- >For those libraries which use passwords to control access to CD-ROM
- >databases:
- >
- >Are passwords assigned to individual users? If so, how time-consuming
- >is this task? Or does everyone use the same password? If so, is this
- >password changed on a regular basis? How do you inform users of the
- >new password? I would be interested in any experience on this subject.
- >You may respond to me or to the list.
- >
- >Thanks in advance.
- >
- >Shelli Crocker
- >Archie Dykes Library
- >University of Kansas Medical Center
- >CROCKER@UKANVM
-
- I think Shelli's question may have to do with remote access. Here at
- Southern our goal is to provide students and faculty at three different
- campuses access to our CD server (named Romulan). Rather than creating
- passwords and user accounts for 20,000+ people, we let our computer
- services maintain their accounts on the academic VAX. Computer services
- keeps the accounts current by purging student accounts quarterly when they
- receive an updated enrollment report from the registrar's VAX unit. Any
- student with an account on the VAX has a menu option for Romulan. Locally,
- we setup our Saber menus to give access to some databases and not others
- based on generic grouping. Maintaining the accounts assures that only
- enrolled students are competing for the CD server resources. It also
- provides a way for student or faculty with modems to access Romulan from
- home, office or dorm room.
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- Cheryl M. Claiborne
- Learning Resources Center
- Georgia Southern University
- Statesboro, GA 30460-8074
- 912-681-5269
- solrccc@gsvms2.cc.gasou.edu
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