[rt-users] Keywords / Forwarding / Control / LDAP

[Christian Gilmore]

> 4) We already have the entire university in an LDAP system -
> Has anyone
> written something to provide LDAP authentication to RT
> (and/or importing
> name,email etc from LDAP). Jesse said a long time ago that
> RT2 would be a
> lot easier to add authentication methods to - if I code it
> myself, where
> should I be looking ?

I've already implemented LDAP with RT2. I'm still considering the
synchronization issues between incoming requests and what the requestor's
LDAP userid (or any attribute, really) would be. I would bet that within
two week's I'll submit a patch that cleanly handles insertion of
site-specific code for this problem with at least the one example I end up
using personally.

Try using Apache::AuthenLDAP and Apache::AuthzLDAP. I've written both of
these modules and have had great success with them within IBM. Also, you
might want to wrap Apache::AuthenCache and Apache::AuthzCache around them
for improved performance.

Regards,
Christian

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Christian Gilmore
Infrastructure & Tools Team Lead
Web & Multimedia Development
IBM Software Group