[rt-users] Re: RT authentication and NIS

[David Z Maze]

"Hswe, Barbara" <b.hswe at genaissance.com> writes:

> Maybe I missed it in the FAQ, but can RT authenticate logins via NIS?

Yes, but not directly.  Probably the easiest way to do it is to tell
Apache to perform HTTP Basic authentication vs. NIS, and then have RT
believe the username Apache hands it.  If you install the
Apache::AuthenNIS Perl module, you can tell Apache (httpd.conf)

  AuthType Basic
  PerlAuthenHandler Apache::AuthenNIS
  Require valid-user

and RT (RT_SiteConfig.pm)

  Set($WebExternalAuth, 1);

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