[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Self Check login

[Daniel Wells]

These are pretty cool solutions, I think maybe it is time for us to stop
logging them in every day :)

Ryan, I have one question about your example config.  Have you had issues
using a 301 redirect rather than 302?  It seems like that could potentially
prevent the cookie from being set on reload, given that the browser may no
longer hit the original link at all once it has received a 301 (until the
cache clears).

Sincerely,
Dan


On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 4:20 PM Ryan Eby <ebyr at aadl.org> wrote:

> Our solution is more technical and probably involved for 2 self-checks.
> The Windows script or URL options that were shared may be more useful but I
> thought I'd post just in case it is useful to someone.
>
> What we do is have the home/launch page of each self-check set to a URL
> like selfchecks.mylibrary.gov/station1. This domain is hosted on an
> internal webserver with each URL location locked down to the IP or IP range
> of the self-checks. When the browser hits this URL it sets cookies for the
> username, password, and workstation and then redirects to the Evergreen
> self-check interface. Since this potentially allows anyone to login you'll
> want to make sure you lock down access to the URL and test.
>
> If it ever gets logged out for some reason then all is needed is a browser
> relaunch or home button click.
>
> Here is an example NGINX server config that has branch level URLs / ACLs:
> https://gist.github.com/eby/5dca1c51b2125a4ace822494fe59cd65
>
> If you host Evergreen internally you should be able to do similar with the
> Apache2 used for your catalog.
>
> FWIW we have chrome kiosks and I'm not sure if Edge has any restrictions
> on cookies that would prevent this from working. We have the self-checks
> URL on the same root domain as the Evergreen catalog along with SSL which
> seems to be enough for Chrome for now.
>
> Ryan Eby
> Ann Arbor District Library
>
> ------------------------------
> *From: *"Millissa Macomber" <millissam at burlingtonwa.gov>
> *To: *"Evergreen Discussion Group" <
> open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org>
> *Sent: *Thursday, February 13, 2020 7:52:03 PM
> *Subject: *[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Self Check login
>
> We are using the Evergreen self check. We have two touchscreen computers
> that we are running in kiosk mode with the Edge browser. They auto start
> and auto login to Windows. Unfortunately, they also still need us to type
> in the login and password for Evergreen. Does anyone know a way to
> eliminate the login screen? Or is there a way to have it auto login? My aim
> is to not need to have a keyboard/mouse with the computer.
>
>
>
> I tried to set the Workstation Required setting under
> Administration/Library setting to False but that didn’t seem to change it.
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
>
>
>
> *Millissa Macomber*
>
> *Technical Services Coordinator*
>
> Burlington Public Library
>
> 820 E. Washington Ave.,
>
> Burlington, WA 98233
>
> millissam at burlingtonwa.gov
>
> 360-755-0760
>
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