Apparently the Libraries have their own account domain that I didn't even know existed. We learned this because they asked our help in finding and setting up a single-sign-on solution, like the one we have everywhere else on campus. Makes sense, SSO is good stuff.
Back at the founding of our fine institution the Library made it a policy to extend borrowing privs to members of the community. I understand this is somewhat unusual at places of higher education, but there we are. Once the electronic age hit, they had to give these community borrowers a presense in the system.
How that was done was to allocate a block of "W numbers" in Banner, and let Libraries handle it. Community person comes in, signs up, and gets allocated a W-number. How the libraries handle the allocation, I don't know. What I do know is that to use most systems over there you have to use your W-number (in essence the number our HR system uses in the place of a name) and PIN (actually a number). Oh. so. secure.
Anyway. So here we have this identity source that our 'authoritative' identity system has no data on beyond "allocated to libraries". Libraries do not, we think, populate back identity data to our central store (Banner). So how are we going to knit things together? This is going to take some debate.
Tags: SSO, libraries
Back at the founding of our fine institution the Library made it a policy to extend borrowing privs to members of the community. I understand this is somewhat unusual at places of higher education, but there we are. Once the electronic age hit, they had to give these community borrowers a presense in the system.
How that was done was to allocate a block of "W numbers" in Banner, and let Libraries handle it. Community person comes in, signs up, and gets allocated a W-number. How the libraries handle the allocation, I don't know. What I do know is that to use most systems over there you have to use your W-number (in essence the number our HR system uses in the place of a name) and PIN (actually a number). Oh. so. secure.
Anyway. So here we have this identity source that our 'authoritative' identity system has no data on beyond "allocated to libraries". Libraries do not, we think, populate back identity data to our central store (Banner). So how are we going to knit things together? This is going to take some debate.
Tags: SSO, libraries