[rt-users] WebExternalAuth not working at all

Jon Davis maillist at konsoletek.com
Mon Sep 13 17:26:52 EDT 2010


Ok, so my guess was right, loginscreen = bad.  So whats the recommended
interface?

-Jon

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 14:17, Kevin Falcone <falcone at bestpractical.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 03:55:36PM -0500, Peter Barton wrote:
> >    Have you setup Auth Priority?
>
> Peter -
>
> RT's WebExternalAuth is not the same as RT::Authen::ExternalAuth
>
> Jon -
>
> If you're still seeing an RT login screen with
> WebFallbackToInternalAuth set to 0, then something wrong is happening,
> since that setting disables chunks of the Login element
>
> My guess would be that using the speedycgi interface (which really
> isn't widely used) is causing REMOTE_USER not to be propagated
> properly.
>
> -kevin
>
> >    Set($ExternalAuthPriority,  [       'My_LDAP', 'My_LDAP2'
>   ]);
> >    And info priority?
> >    Set($ExternalInfoPriority,  [         'My_LDAP', 'My_LDAP2'
>     ]);
> >
> >    From: rt-users-bounces at lists.bestpractical.com
> >    [mailto:rt-users-bounces at lists.bestpractical.com] On Behalf Of Jon
> Davis
> >    Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 3:23 PM
> >    To: rt-users
> >    Subject: [rt-users] WebExternalAuth not working at all
> >
> >
> >
> >    I'm currently running RT 3.8.7 under Ubuntu 10.04 with Apache 2 &
> SpeedyCGI.  I am trying to
> >    use WebExternalAuth for authentication since I have my Apache install
> talking to OpenDS
> >    (LDAP).
> >
> >    I have the following config in my RT_SiteConfig.pm
> >    Set($WebExternalAuth , 1);
> >    Set($WebFallbackToInternalAuth , 0);
> >    #Set($WebExternalGecos , 0);
> >    Set($WebExternalAuto , 1);
> >    #Set($AutoCreate, {Privileged => 1});
> >    #Set($WebExternalAuthContinuous, 1);
> >
> >    Apache prompts me for a password, and authenticates me.  In the Apache
> logs [1], it shows my
> >    username... but RT keeps dumping me back  to the login screen.  I'd
> presum seeting
> >    WebFallBackToInteralAuth to zero or indef to make that NOT happen.
>  I'm at my wits end trying
> >    to figure out what is going on, why it wont authenticate from apache
> and why it gives me a
> >    login screen even though it isn't supposed to.  I've tried every
> variation of fiddling with
> >    the configs and I just dont know where to find the debug information
> nessiary to fix this.
> >
> >    Please, any help would be GREATLY appreciated
> >    -Jon
> >
> >    [1] 192.168.38.170 - jdavis [13/Sep/2010:12:56:59 -0700] "GET /rt/
> HTTP/1.1" 200 2212 "-"
> >    "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.6)
> Gecko/20091201
> >    Firefox/3.5.6"
>
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