[rt-users] Re: NIS authentication

[seph]

>  Well users are created and this user can create a ticket but not change
> their own preferences like nickname. Getting an error message Permission
> denied. I was wrong about privileges as autohandler has SetPrivileged(1)
> for users. But why can't I change my own info when logged in?

What is your ACL setup? maybe you don't like Everyone ModifySelf?

>> What do you mean failing? Looking at your httpd,conf snippet, I don't
>> see how apache would ever let you hit RT without a valid REMOTE_USER,
>> so WebFallbackToInternalAuth is never invoked, only WebExternalAuto.
>
> Oh ok. So as admin is set as REMOTE_USER it doesn't fallback. Is there
> any way I can tell apache not to authenticate for 'admin' against NIS
> but against RT database?

I'm not sure how'd you'd tell apache to never authenticate certain
usernames. For myself, I'd create a "seph/admin" user, and have RT
canonicalize all the /admin users to root.

seph