[rt-users] Another ExternalAuth question - "strict refs"

[Jon Tollerton]

If you have "use strict;", it just means that you have to explicitly 
define your variables before you use them.  That means that you either 
have to have a section where you define the variables that you're going 
to use such as:

my $foo;
my $bar;
my $baz;

or you have to define it the first time it's used (and only the first 
time), such as

#do some things
my $foo="bar";
$foo="baz";

It's designed to make sure that you don't have typos inside your 
variable names and is mostly just a matter of style more than anything 
else.  That doesn't address your LDAP issue, but should help to show why 
the fatal error was occurring.

Aaron Zuercher wrote:
> A followup:
>
> I looked at the User_Vendor.pm file in the error and commented out the 
> "use strict;" line at the beginning of the file.  now I can login as 
> root but not LDAP.  I'm not a programmer so I don't understand the 
> sigificance of that statement.  Will my "fix" cause any other 
> errors/problems?  Is there a better option?
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Aaron Zuercher 
> <aaron.techgeeks at gmail.com <mailto:aaron.techgeeks at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi guys,
>     I've been following the discussions about ExternalAuth with great
>     interest as I"ve been slowly working to move my 3.6.0 install to
>     the most current version.  I'm trying to setup ExternalAuth to
>     LDAP currently.  When its enabled I get this message in the
>     browser when I try to login:
>
>     Can't use string ("My_LDAP") as an ARRAY ref while "strict refs"
>     in use at
>     /opt/rt3/local/plugins/RT-Authen-ExternalAuth/lib/RT/User_Vendor.pm
>     line 728, line 273.
>
>     I cannot login as root (local) or LDAP.  I installed ExternaAUth
>     v006 which I understand has a bug in it but i'm not sure if this
>     is the same error or something different.  Can somone point me in
>     the right direction?
>
>     Thanks,
>     Aaron
>
>
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