[rt-users] RT3.8.1-Custom Login Requires Code Changes?

[Mike Peachey]

Edward Bryan wrote:
> I've been tasked with finding a way to login to our RT system by 
> validating our cookies against a local database and then submitting a 
> valid user name as a login token to RT. The object is to write a single 
> sign on plugin that validates against a secure database for a large 
> number of diverse applications.
> 
> RT has facilities to query LDAP and DBI databases with ExternalAuth and 
> it also has the ability to read a cookie and validate it against a 
> database of users and user IDs with CookieAuth but it doesn't seem to 
> have a method for allowing me do to my own user validation and then 
> simply submitting a user name as a valid login token. RT retains the 
> power of the query for user validation. (Correct?)
> 
> I think in order to do this I will need to do some major Mason-ary work 
> and before I propose a project of that size to my customer, I wanted to 
> get confirmation that this is the only way to get RT to follow our local 
> login model.


TBH CookieAuth is a fantastic example of how to "build your own" and 
although it's not *totally* clear what you're looking for I don't think 
you'd have to veer far from it.

The whole validation path is quite simple.. you put in an Auth callback 
that runs whatever code you want it to when a user first vists and you 
can call any other methods you want at the same time, and all you need 
to have a logged in user is to put a user in the $session variable.

If you want to do your own changes to validation of an actual password, 
you just gotta override isPassword in the USer object using a 
User_Vendor.pm or User_Local.pm.

I can advise better if you can clarify a little what your intended 
result is.
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Kind Regards,

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