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===Explanation in more detail=== We want to associate the EPrints user account with an identifying PUID, which allows us to identify the user by EPrints userID or PUID. We will also want to display the organisation (university/department/research-group) that the user is associated with. We will use a cookie to define which authentication point we want (we might as well make in generic enough to cope with multiple systems) For security, we will never pass the PUID via URI parameter (POST '''''or''''' GET) as that provides a means of spoofing a user-id This document will assume that you are creating a new archive rather than modifying a live site. If you want to modify an existing system, you'll need to update the database tables by hand as well as modifying the user object as shown here. Much of the new code we will be creating will be in a file in <code>archives/''ARCHIVEID''/cfg/cfg.d/</code>. Call it something sensible and meaningful. In this example, I'll call it <code>MyCode.pl</code>
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