Authentication - Library card

EZproxy configuration provides an interface to configure library card authentication. See Library Card for details about library card authentication integration with EZproxy.  

To set up a connection in the configuration UI from the EZproxy server to allow library card access: 

1. Select Authentication from the left navigation. 
2. Click Add authentication type on the Authentication screen. 
3. Select library card from the Select authentication type drop-down menu. The library card configuration screen opens. 
4. From the library card configuration screen: 
5. Enter the unique identifier in the Host Identifier text field. 
6. Enter a unique name for this authentication in the Tag text field. 
7. (Optional) Select the Use auth tag checkbox if you want to require this function. 
8. Enter the library card configuration block in the User options text field. 
   • Example: 12345#######::checkdigit  or 12345####### 

9. Click Save. To apply the library card connection, deploy it to both Pre-production and Production.