[rt-users] LDAP authentication

[Harald Wagener]

"V S R A, Prasad (Prasad)" wrote:
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yan Fitterer [mailto:y.fitterer at ram.ac.uk]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 12:17 AM
> To: rt-users at lists.fsck.com
> Subject: [rt-users] LDAP authentication
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to get some form of LDAP authentication to work. Looked at the
> various
> submitted scripts, etc...
> 
> I'm still failing to understand (or find any mention of) how true LDAP
> authentication
> should work? IE Username / Password pair verification. It's obviously
> possible, as
> many Apache modules do it for you. But how is it actually done - and can it
> be
> done through a Perl script?

The easiest way is to implement ldap authentication on the web server side and
set $WebExternalAuth to a defined value. Since I answered this question a few
times the last week, I think I am going to write a FAQ. 

But, to answer Your question, you could write a perl script using the
Perl::LDAP module and try to shove it into RT itself (or run it as an
extension of the web server via mod_perl - but then You can use mod_auth_ldap
as well), but I think that would be overkill. 

Regards,
	Harald
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