[rt-users] Authentication

[Atom Powers]

Dave Sill wrote:

>Is there any way to tie RT accounts to system accounts? I'd prefer not
>to have to issue and maintain RT passwords. Ideally I'd like to be
>able to create an RT user and click an "Authenticate using PAM" button
>like I can with RHN. Less ideal but still workable would be to run a
>script that extracts password hashes from /etc/shadow and plugs them
>into RT somehow.
>
>Right now I don't see any alternative to generating RT-specific
>passwords and distributing them to users.
>
>-Dave
>_________
>
I use Apache's auth_pam; there is also an ldap plugin.

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