[Rt-devel] Request For Comments - ExternalAuth (Hoping to be RTx::ExternalAuth v0.1)

[Todd Chapman]

Shouldn't User_Local be User_Vendor? That way User_Local will still be free
for local customizations.

On 3/11/08, Mike Peachey <mike.peachey at jennic.com> wrote:
>
> Afternoon everyone.
>
> For those that don't know, I have dedicated a lot of time recently to
> creating a new External Authentication system as an extension to the
> work put together by Jim Meyer and those that came before him in
> creating an LDAP authentication system.
>
> I have now completed the first stage of that task and I present to you
> the alpha. This version is capable of authenticating users from LDAP or
> any database for which a DBI driver is installed as well as a primitive
> cookie authentication system.
>
> This ExternalAuth module contains four files.
>
> 1. etc/RT_SiteConfig_ExternalAuth_Generic.pm
> This contains the config settings specific to this module
>
> 2. local/html/Callbacks/ExternalAuth/autohandler/auth
> This is an upgraded version of the LDAP auth Callback that calls all the
> necessary code at login time for user information and authentication
> checking.
>
> 3. local/lib/RT/User_Local.pm
> This is the upgraded User_Local.pm that contains all the custom code for
> external service authentication and information checking.
>
> 4. lib/RT/Interface/CookieAuth.pm
> This is a custom Cookie Authentication module which is primarily for our
> internal use here at Jennic, but is integrated into the other pieces so
> that anyone can use it if it is useful to them. I'm not sure that
> lib/RT/Interface is the best place for this code, but it'll have to stay
> there until someone else tells me different.
>
> I have put an immense amount of effort into bringing this all together
> and even more effort has been put into commenting the code as clearly as
> possible so that anyone could understand it.
>
> I would *sincerely* appreciate /ANY/ feedback or comments about this
> code and would love to have a couple of people run through it and give
> it a test.
>
> If I hear nothing, and find no more issues myself, then this will be
> uploaded to CPAN as is.
>
> Thank you :)
> --
> Kind Regards,
>
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