[rt-users] Authenticating to RT using PAM ?

[Alan Horn]

On Sun, 6 Jun 2004, Jesse Vincent wrote:

>Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2004 18:30:33 -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 ?
>
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>> 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...)
>
> Take a read through the configuration file. If you still have questions,
> ask again.
>

I did that.. I see two things that seem relevant :

LookupExternalUserInfo structure

and

# If $WebExternalAuth is defined, RT will defer to the environment's
# REMOTE_USER variable.

$WebExternalAuth = undef;

So my question is.. if I define $WebExternalAuth and then _don't_ define 
$REMOTE_USER via the webserver, will RT then fall through to its internal 
authentication database.

It's not clear to me from reading the configuration file that it will, or 
won't.

I should of course mention that this is RT2.0.15 (sorry for not stating 
that earlier)

Cheers,

Al