Reading Bob's message has made me think my earlier reply might have been
too simplistic. We also use a similar method for assigning barcodes at
least to our students and like Warwick use the University ID (u) for
III_TAG.
Mieko
Cooke, Bob wrote:
> Hello Maureen,
> We have been trying to implement LDAp for a couple of years now,
> and the problems we have not overcome are to do with refusal to
> start up a session on the LDAP server at c40% of attempts, and also
> to do with cat and elec resources users using a different url
> (webcat.warwic.ac.uk and pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk resepectively.
> S we're still struggling..
> However, the problem that you are having ought to be solvable,
> I think by setting the LDAP.properties (A>A>S>V>E>) such that rthe
> III_TAG (returned by the LDAP server from 'KEY_ATTRIBUTE= whatever the
> LDAP server calls your held barcode in each record' is always your
> barcode (b)
> (in our case we use instead Uinversity ID (u) as our barcodes have a
> suffix which increments by 1 for each new card issue, appended to
> the univ. id). Users would log on to the LDAP server with their
> network login and password whether that is a name (richardm) or a
> number (90000123), so the pverifyx screens would have to ask for this
> (as I imagine they currently do for students).
> I hope this helps, and if anyone can help with advice on
> circumstances
> causing bad session start (illegal seek errors in the ldap.log file),
> or the multiple url problem (I am currently trying to exploit the
> SSL_PORT syntax
> in wwwoptions), I would be absolutely delighted!
> Bob Cooke
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