I apologize, the information below is incorrect.  The pipeline updater
is only for students.  I have discussed the issue with the person in
charge of the updating system, and he said that the issue will probably
be fixed soon for linux clients using a complicated system we have
developed.  Again, sorry for the misinformation.

Caleb Jorden.

On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 15:50, Caleb Jorden wrote:
> 
> > You can't update your directory information at search.truman.edu
> > unless you use IE.  (We wrote this ourselves, so I suppose
> > there's no vender to lean on here but us.)
> 
> FYI: This information can be modified inside of Pipeline.  After you log
> in, you can click on Truman Searches and then Edit Information on the
> left.  The reason that modification on search.truman.edu does not work
> in linux is that it, as well as some other sites, uses NTLM
> authentication.  NTLM authentication is supported in Mozilla in recent
> builds, but only in Windows.  The reason that NTLM authentication is
> used is that it is more secure than basic authentication, which sends
> credentials in plain text over http.  I do not have an answer to how we
> could easily and securely authenticate linux clients, I only hope that
> mozilla for linux will soon support NTLM.
> 
> 
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