[rt-users] WebExternalAuth performance

[Christian Gilmore]

You'll want to use a caching mechanism around your external auth mechanism.
For instance, I use a combination of Apache::AuthenCache with
Apache::AuthenLDAP.

Thanks,
Christian

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Christian Gilmore
Technology Leader
GeT WW Global Applications Development
IBM Software Group


> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:rt-users-admin at lists.fsck.com]On Behalf Of Neil Bingham
> Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 11:25 AM
> To: rt-users at lists.fsck.com
> Subject: [rt-users] WebExternalAuth performance
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I've been experimenting with the WebExternalAuth in RT and
> have noticed
> something a little odd.
>
> We are using an external authentication program for all our Apache
> authentication by using mod_auth_external.  What I have
> noticed is that
> since switching RT to using WebExternalAuth my external auth
> program is
> called every time a URL is requested from RT.  This is posing
> a serious
> performance overhead as the auth lookup takes several seconds.
>
> Is there no way to plug in an external authenticator program
> into RT and
> then take advantage of its cookies for performance reasons?
>
> Neil.
>
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