[rt-users] Authenticating to RT using PAM ?

[Alan Horn]

On Sun, 6 Jun 2004, Jesse Vincent wrote:

>Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2004 17:37:58 -0400
>From: Jesse Vincent <jesse at bestpractical.com>
>To: Alan Horn <ahorn at deorth.org>
>Cc: rt-users at lists.bestpractical.com
>Subject: Re: [rt-users] Authenticating to RT using PAM ?
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 02:36:28PM -0700, Alan Horn wrote:
>>
>> Is this possible ? IS there any documentation or howtos out there on the
>> subject ?
>
> RT lets you delegate authentication to your webserver. Do that. Then do
> this:
>
> http://pam.sourceforge.net/mod_auth_pam/configure.html

That looks like just what I need.. thanks !

One more question.. it says in config.pm that RT will 'defer' to 
REMOTE_USER. Does it only do that if REMOTE_USER is defined (I'd test but 
I don't have a test instance running right now...)

I can see a situation where my internal support folks go to RT via 
centralised PAM for auth (e.g. via a webserver redirect that defined the 
variable), and the external customers still use the RT database. Is this 
doable ?

Cheers,

Al