Text file authentication

If you want EZproxy to perform user authentication from a text file, follow these steps:

1. Create a file that contains a user identification optionally followed by a colon and user password. If this file was an extract of your library card numbers, it might simply contain lines like:

   13524697531 
   13587533212 
   
   

   If the file contained usernames and passwords, it might look like:

   jsmith:secret 
   mdoe:codeword 
   
   

   
    Note: Passwords are case-sensitive only in Hosted EZproxy. Usernames remain case-insensitive.

   With Standalone EZproxy with file authentication, both usernames and passwords are checked using case-insensitive comparisons. This allows the usernames jsmith, JSMITH, JSmith to match along with the passwords secret, SECRET, sEcReT."

2. Copy this file to your EZproxy server.
3. In your main EZproxy directory, edit the user.txt file and add a line like:

   ::file=myusers.txt

   Note: Changes to user.txt take effect immediately. You do not have to restart EZproxy when you update this file, and if you create an updated version of myusers.txt, those changes will be available immediately.