[rt-users] Best method to authenticate with AD
Helmuth Ramirez
HelmuthRamirez at compupay.com
Tue Aug 26 09:08:10 EDT 2008
Another vote for #2
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Peachey
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 4:51 AM
To: Gerrit Kilian; RT Users
Subject: Re: [rt-users] Best method to authenticate with AD
Gerrit Kilian wrote:
> Hi
>
>
>
> I need to let RT authenticate users through AD. We have a number of
> levels in our AD structure to separate users on geographical and
> departmental reasons. On the best practice website I have read that
> there are three ways:
>
>
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> 1. Apache Authentication
>
> 2. Mike Peachey's RT:Authen::ExternalAuth extension
>
> 3. Jim Meyer's User_Local Overlay(Deprecated)
I recommend 2 over 3 because 2 is a complete rewrite of 3 and Jim is
happy that 2 deprecates 3. As for 1, I've never done it, but it depends
on whether you just want access authentication, or whether you want user
information to be loaded from an external source.
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