[rt-users] external authentication

[Phil Homewood]

Aaron Bryant wrote:
> Has anyone had any luck getting external
> authentication to work?  I have a script that I want
> to try, and I know that you are supposed to use
> SetExternalAuth in config.pm.  Am I supposed to define
> that to point to the script?  When I do that, all RT
> says is 'Error -> You are not an authorized user.'  I
> think a window is supposed to popup or something, and
> I have made changes to httpd.conf (AllowOverride
> AuthConfig) and .htaccess (require valid-user), but to
> no avail.

If you're requiring "valid-user" but not seeing Apache
prompting you for username and password, your problem
lies in your Apache config, not RT. $WebExternalAuth
simply tells RT to let Apache handle the authentication.
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