Feature Requests item #2428467, was opened at 2008-12-14 17:45 Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by Item Submitter You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=369984&aid=2428467&group_id=19984
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: Authentication Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Andrew Peter Marlow (apm42gpl) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: IP-based authentication via dspace,cfg inhibits large ranges Initial Comment: Currently, IP authentication is done by adding the IP ranges for the various groups into the config file dspace.cfg. This is fine for small simple configurations but would be unmanagable for anything large. I am looking at using DSpace for a digital library where there would be many many cases of users coming in via IP authenticated routes. There would be thousands of individually configured IP address ranges. I know it sounds incredible but it's true. That's because I am looking into the possibility of a DSpace solution for a digital library that is to replace an existing one that is very well established. This old library has tens of thousands of users any a good fraction of them come via sites that employ IP authentication, They represent institutions that do not want to have to register each and every user. There are many of these institutions. LOTS of them. I could configure it all in dspace.cfg but if I did, the file would be enormous and it would be mainly be IP authentication data. I was wondering what chance there would be of making dspace so it used one or more database tables to store the data. -Andrew Marlow ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=369984&aid=2428467&group_id=19984 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ Dspace-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-devel
