[rt-users] ExternalAuth 'environment' type

[Kevin Falcone]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 09:29:46AM +1000, David Nillesen wrote:
> > Running
> >
> > git diff 0.08..0.09 | grep -i environment
> >
> > in the rt-authen-externalauth git repo doesn't find me any results.
> > Did you perhaps have a local mod?
> >
> > If you're referring to REMOTE_USER that's something that RT handles
> > without an extension.
> >
> > -kevin
> 
> Wow, OK. Apparently I need to work on my documentation a bit more.
> 
> It adds configurable element for an environment variable that contains
> a username to be trusted. From memory my plans were to use webauth
> eventually via the apache module/plugin.
> 
> The only thing I can think of is that I liked the LDAP mapping
> features of externalauth better then the core features.
> 
> Feel free to use the patch if you think it is in any way useful. My
> apologies if I have copied it from someone else, but I honestly don't
> remember how I got to this point :)

What you could do is auth with mod_auth_kerb or some other apache mod
and then use the info features of RT-Authen-ExternalAuth to pull info
from REMOTE_USER.  I believe there is an open bug about that with a
fix in the repo but unreleased.

-kevin
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