Bug 39943

Summary: Add a separate PIN code field for accessing self service devices
Product: Koha Reporter: Lari Taskula <lari.taskula>
Component: AuthenticationAssignee: Bugs List <koha-bugs>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact: Testopia <testopia>
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P5 - low CC: dpavlin
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description Lari Taskula 2025-05-20 11:34:10 UTC
Some libraries allow their patrons to authenticate to a self-checkout or an access control device with a short pin number. While this is user-friendly and compatible with numpad devices, from a security standpoint it is not acceptable to have such a weak pin code as the patron account password outside library premises in OPAC on the public internet.

It would be useful to separate a weaker PIN code field from the borrowers.password field. This weaker PIN code would only be used for SIP2 and possibly SCO/SCI access in a more restricted environment.