[rt-users] Set User Password

[Kevin Falcone]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 04:58:02PM -0600, John Alberts wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:16:51 -0800 (PST)
> Kurt Engle <engle at 4j.lane.edu> wrote:
> 
> > I am wanting to use the Internal RT user database as well as an
> > External LDAP database for user authentication.
> 
> The only way I've found to do this is to temporarily disable LDAP auth,
> add the users I want and set their password, and then re-enable LDAP
> auth.  One side effect, if the user you added does exist in LDAP, the
> user can use either the LDAP password or the password you gave them to
> login.
> 
> Not sure if there is a better way to do this, but I couldn't find any
> 'official' way to layer authentication and I only need to add a couple
> special users for automation purposes, so what I did worked for me.

RT-Authen-ExternalAuth hides the password boxes using css if the
current user doesn't have a password, since it can't ask you to type
in your password before changing the user's password.  Does it work if
you're logged in as the root user?

-kevin
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