[rt-devel] Re: [rt-users] External Authentication and Users

[Jesse]

One of the reasons that stuff is still in RT2 is that RT2 is designed to keep track of account info for users who may not have accounts in the local passwd file /ldap file /whatver.  We do, however, add an "external id" perfect for doing LDAP lookups against.

On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 11:35:43AM +1000, Charlie Brady wrote:
> I've always felt that the phone, location etc fields belonged in LDAP (or
> some other directory service) and not in RT itself. So rather than
> autofill from LDAP, I'd say just leave them out entirely from RT, or fetch
> them directly from LDAP rather than RT's mySQL table when they are
> needed.

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