[rt-users] Re: Password Encryption Used By RT

[Vik Bhatia]

I am interested in knowing how to set up RT to use external auth. I use 
a perl program to run a LDAP authentication for certain web pages and 
would like to do the same with RT. in a nutshell what I do with my other 
apps that run through apache is:

1. Specify the auth type as "basic" the httpd.conf file and the auth 
handler as a perl module which runs a LDAP search during the 
authorization phase of the http request loop. It returns OK if the 
password and username are valid at the LDAP server.

The question I have is, can I use the same mechanism with RT somehow?

Thanks for your help!

-Vik

Dave Ewart wrote:
> On Friday, 08.11.2002 at 10:41 -0600, Rick Bradley wrote:
> 
> 
>>In short, if your system uses crypt() passwords then you should be
>>able to cut and paste from the passwd file, otherwise no.
> 
> 
> Or, you could set RT to use "external" authentication, which means that
> the authenticated user passed by Apache is accepted and used by RT.  You
> can then create a password file, for use by Apache, containing the MD5
> passwords from elsewhere.  If you'd like more details, let me know.
> 
> Dave.