[rt-users] LDAP External Auth & Autocreating authenticated users

[Scott Russell]

Mike Patterson wrote:
> I finally figured our how to make Apache authenticate against LDAP and 
> once I got over that hurdle, RT plays very nicely.
> 
> Now that I have this in place there are a few more things I'd like to do.
> 
> Issue 1)
> 
> I would like LDAP authenticated people to have their account 
> automatically created (e.g. ($WebExternalAuto), including email address 
> info if possible, (if it didn't already exist), and for those same 
> people to become priveleged users.

I just extended RT to do this here as well. For Web logins create 
Web_Local.pm in the same location as your Web.pm file (lib/RT/Interface/ 
for me). You want to extend the WebExternalAutoInfo method from Web.pm 
to map your LDAP attribs to RT user fields.

-- 
Scott Russell <lnxgeek at us.ibm.com>
IBM Linux Technology Center