Cookie/RPAS

At the Location level, cookie passwords and RPAS authentication methods are grouped together so that a location can use one of these methods, or neither of them.

NOTE: Cookie passwords and RPAS authentication information can only be added and edited at the Location level (green tab).

1. Navigate to the Location Summary page of the account for which you wish to add/edit cookie passwords or RPAS authentication.
2. From the Location Summary page, click Location Authentication in the left-hand sidebar menu. Then select Cookie/RPAS from the submenu. (Alternatively, from the Cookie Password or the RPAS page at the Institution level, you can click a location's View/Edit link.)
3. The Cookies/RPAS page at the Location level is displayed.
4. Only one authentication type can be active at a time, as determined by the Activate authentication type radio button selection.
   • Cookie: Use this authentication if the location does not have fixed IP ranges or shares IP ranges with non-subscribing institutions. Cookie dialup password sets a cookie on the computer for a set number of days. Enter the password, and then the cache life of the cookie in days.
   • Remote Password Script: Remote patron authentication can be set by the customer or by Gale. For customers that authenticate their users via a script housed on their server, enter the host, port, and path/query to the script. Gale also can provide remote authentication for customers who do not have the means to create or house a script on their own servers to authenticate their users. Contact your Cengage Learning representative for more information.
5. Click Save.