[rt-users] Best method to authenticate with AD

[Gerrit Kilian]

Hello Mike

Thank you for your advice. I have decided to go with
RT:Authen::ExternalAuth for AD authentication.

Regards
Gerrit

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Peachey [mailto:mike.peachey at jennic.com] 
Sent: 26 August 2008 10:51 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:
> 
>  
> 
> 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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Kind Regards,

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