[rt-users] unix passwd authenitcation

[Les Mikesell]

On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 16:55, cschrader at dca.net wrote:
> Hello,
> I am currently setting up rt3 for my company on a centOS 4 box, and I am
> having some trouble figuring out how to authenticate against the unix
> passwd file. I saw the option to allow RT to trust the apache
> authentication, but I'm not sure if this is necessary. I would like to
> authenticate with the same box rt is running on. Is there a way to make rt
> use pam directly? Thanks for your help,

You can use the mod_auth_pam apache module to let apache use the
same authentication as the rest of the system.  You'll still have
to add the users and configure permissions within RT but apache
will check the system password.  Note that if you are using
shadow passwords you'll have to allow apache to read them, and
if you are using a method (like SMB to a windows domain controller)
that doesn't involve a real linux account you will need to
put:
account    required     pam_permit.so
in your /etc/pam.d/httpd file to skip checking anything but
the password.

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  Les Mikesell
    les at futuresource.com