[rt-users] sessions and external authentication

[Jesse Vincent]

Using external authentication, RT has no control over your credentials.  
This us the fault of poor browser implementation of http authentication.
2.0.7 removed the [logout] URL (or was it 2.0.6) because it had no effect with External auth.

	-jesse 




On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 05:48:28PM -0500, Paul Rossman wrote:
> Hi again, 
> 
> I'm still having no luck with the external authentication. At first, I
> thought that it may be an issue with Redhat 7.1 rpm installs (perl,
> apache, etc). So I un-installed perl 560, apache, and all the apache
> module rpms. Next I downloaded and built by hand apache and perl and
> mod_perl. All the perl modules are also fresh, tested, seems to be
> working.
> 
> Here is most of what is installed now:
> apache_1.3.20
> perl-5.6.1
> auth_ldap-1.6.0
> mod_perl-1.26
> DBD-mysql-2.0902
> rt-2-0-7
> 
> Everything else is uptodate with cpan. Funny thing - after dumping the
> rpm versions, and building these new versions, I still get the same
> 'cant logout completely, remembers who you are', but in addition I have
> now lost the 'logout' link when I'm logged in as root to rt2.
> 
> I should add, that 'root' is not listed in our ldap server, so I've
> created a web-pass file for simple apache authentication for root only.
> 
> I think I'm going to tinker around with the login script and add ldap
> hooks to it. I'd still like to get the apache auth working though, and
> any help would be great.


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