[Rt-devel] Determining authenticated user via REST API?

[Kevin Falcone]

On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 07:12:28PM -0700, Steve Rushing wrote:
>    So I've been tasked with setting up a live chat support system which will tie into a
>    publically available RT system, for authenticating and logging.  I've got the logging part
>    done with no problem, but I'm a little stuck on authentication.  I would like to be able to
>    transparently authenticate against RT using the session cookie they get from logging in to the
>    web UI, preferably seeding the user name for the live chat from it, too.  So, since the power
>    of Google and the RT wiki didn't reveal it, I was hoping someone here could illuminate me with
>    a convenient way to do this using the REST API, before I start hacking together a new module
>    for RT.

The RT::Authen::ExternalAuth module will authenticate using external
cookies

-kevin
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