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Overview
- Credentials are the tool someone uses to unlock an electronic lock.
- Credentials can come in many forms.
- Creating a credential is a multi-step process.
- At Valley Library we use:
- Personal Identification Numbers (PIN
- Proximity Credentials
- Key cards
- Fobs
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Doors
- This is used primarily in the facilities for 1st, 5th, and 6th.
- Credentials for a door must be assigned to a user.
- Because the rooms are used by multiple patrons, it is not realistic to give each patron their own credential to use the room.
- Instead, the door becomes the user.
- Credentials for the room are then assigned to the room's door.
- Each door is given two credentials (copy 1 & copy 2).
- These are the key cards we check out at the Circulation desk.
- We could use Circulation as the user, but then Circulation would have hundreds of credentials, and that isn't practical either.
Keys
- This group is for credentials that aren't always assigned to a real person but aren't part of a large enough group to have its own user group.
- This group is used in a variety of ways. It includes:Temporary PINS for new staff
- Credentials used by Circulation including
- master key cards
- freeze and toggle credentials
- credentials for Valley Library classrooms (not Grad Commons)
- Credentials used by Circulation including
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