[rt-users] Re: NIS authentication

[Parimala Ramdas]

>> Users from NIS are logged into RT. But if there is no such user, it
>> doesn't fall back to RT login page. And after log in this user cannot
>> even change preferences. It says permission denied. I assume that
users
>> are created without any privileges. How can I fix this? And how does
an
>> admin log on to manage RT as $WebFallbackToInternalAuth is failing?
I'm
>> using RT ver 2.1.88.
> This is what I did for RT 3.0.8, you might be able to reuse that, I
> guess the code hasn't changed that much over 2.1. It requires the
> attached patch to html/autohandler. It doesn't use external
> authentication, instead the autohandler itself tries NIS
authentication
> first and if that fails, it falls back to the database.

Thanks Fabian! Currently I'm trying to make the Apache-NIS work. If it
doesn't work out the way I want it to, I'll try the autohandler patch
(looks great!). 

parimala