[rt-users] User Provisioning from AD

[Kevin Falcone]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 02:59:03PM -0500, Robert Nesius wrote:
>    Hi Kevin,
> 
>    I finally had time to circle back and work on piloting/configuring RT
> 
>    Quick Recap - I had asked about solutions for bulk-loading identities from LDAP (active
>    directory in my case) into RT so that the users appeared in the system as privileged users.
> 
>    You suggested two things:
>    1) Setting the flag that makes auto-created users privileged.
>    2) Using RT-Extension-LDAPImport
> 
>    I've installed RT-Extension-LDAPImport and was reading the README. What jumped out at me is
>    that there is both a script to run (presumably to bulk-load identities) and a plug-in. I was
>    expecting to see a script, but a plugin was unexpected, which lead me to wonder if this module
>    is both a method for importing users from ldap, and an on-the-fly authentication and
>    user-creation tool too? If so, that implies I don't need the 3rd party ldapauth plug-in I
>    already have installed. (I'd rather use a module from Best Practical if I had a choice).

Rob

Please keep comments on the list rather than in my personal mailbox

If you look at the script, it is 23 lines long.  The plugin is where
the import code is stored and organized, the script is just a wrapper.

You still need RT-Authen-ExternalAuth or apache LDAP authentication if
you want to validate passwords against an external source

-kevin

> 
>    Just trying to make sure I'm understanding things correctly.
> 
>    Thanks much!
> 
>    -Rob
> 
>    On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Robert Nesius <[1]nesius at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>      On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Kevin Falcone <[2]falcone at bestpractical.com> wrote:
> 
>        Have you looked at RT-Extension-LDAPImport ?
>        -kevin
> 
>      I had not found my way to it yet! Now that I read the cpan page, that looks very much like
>      what I'm looking for.
> 
>      Thanks so much, Kevin. I'll play with this and see how it goes!