[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Patron online self registration for immediate use accounts

[Blake Henderson]

Lindsay,

Our consortium has asked for this as well. We have had subsequent 
discussions with the community.

Mentioned here:

http://irc.evergreen-ils.org/evergreen/2015-11-16#i_215021

With the idea of leaving the patrons in pending.


I know it's been brought up a few times but I am unable to turn up the 
conversations at the moment. The issue that keeps coming out of the 
discussions is security. Especially if there is some automatic mechanism 
to move the pending patrons to actor.usr. What's to stop the malicious 
patron from racking up a bad account, then creating a new one and 
continuing?

It's worth discussing on Launchpad though, to at least document it!



-Blake-
Conducting Magic
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573-234-4513

On 2/9/2017 8:42 AM, Lindsay Stratton wrote:
> We are looking into options to allow our patrons to create accounts 
> online that can be immediately used to access and borrow online materials.
>
> Looking at the existing patron self-registration feature, that just 
> creates pending accounts for staff to verify, etc.
>
> Is anybody else considering/interested in online registration for 
> online access use? I'd create a wishlist, but am also be interested in 
> finding potential funding partners.
>
>
> Lindsay Stratton
> Library Automation Services Manager
> Pioneer Library System
> 2557 State Rte 21
> Canandaigua, NY 14424
> 585-394-8260 x104
>

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