[Moodle] OT intranet gateway

[WEIR Andrew]

The cms in question uses tomcat as a web server. We are using docushare
as the cms 

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Sent: Friday, 15 June 2007 11:30 AM
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Subject: Re: [Moodle] OT intranet gateway

Well, you could use http authentication to allow access to the
webserver. The application (CMS) would then have to deal with it's own
authentication. So everyone would have to authenticate twice - once to
access the web server, then (for staff) to log in as themselves (for
students) to log in as the guest. I don't know which web server you are
using, so can't point to how you would set this up. If you cannot access
the webserver itself, you could set up apache as a front-side proxy,
which would handle the webserver authentication then forward the page
request to the CMS.

You would want to log which user logs in from which IP address (in the
webserver) so you could match this to the logs in the CMS in case any
students go on a rampage/do anything inappropriate.

vik

On 6/15/07, WEIR Andrew <WEIR at thomascarr.vic.edu.au> wrote:
> Apologies for the Cross post. (I know we are all busy with reports)
>
> The college has decided to implement a content management system as 
> the first step to a full LMS however we have run into an issue where 
> by due to cost it is prohibitively expensive to by licenses for every 
> student to use the system. To over come this the students use the 
> guest access and staff use there own password protected accounts.
>
> What I would like to know is if anyone has used? Is using ? Or has 
> heard of any Gateway tool that we could put between this system and 
> the internet to force students to log into using there current School 
> accounts which them lets them see the guest account.
> This also prevents Google from indexing the CMS.
>
> Thanking you in advance
> Andrew
>
>
>
> Andrew Weir
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