[rt-users] external user authentication (i.e. LDAP)

[Sebastian Flothow]

At 12:51 Uhr -0500 17.4.2002, Beachey, Kendric wrote:
>  > Wouldn't you want to try to authenticate against RT first, not
>>  last?
>
>Hmmm.  If the user changes their Novell password, I want that new password
>to get them into RT as well.  Changing their Novell password wouldn't affect
>their RT password.  The idea of changing all passwords on all systems in one
>simple motion is what we're going for here.

This will work as well when you authenticate against RT first - RT 
authentication will fail, and the subsequent authentication against 
Novell will succeed.
Thus, it'll work the same, but with fewer negative authentications 
against Novell. It might also improve performance, since querying 
RT's database is probably a lot faster than connecting to an LDAP 
server.


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Sebastian Flothow
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