[rt-users] Combining Apache Auth with RT:Authen:External overlays
Ruslan Zakirov
ruslan.zakirov at gmail.com
Thu Oct 8 03:07:14 EDT 2009
David,
Do you use some SingleSignOn solution? If it's not the case then why
do you need apache auth at all?
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 4:51 AM, David Nillesen <dnillese at une.edu.au> wrote:
> Hi,
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> I’ve been trying to get this to work for a bit, but am not
> having any luck.
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> o What I would like is to use Apache authentication via LDAP, so that all
> the apps on our server running RT are using the same auth system.
>
> o Then I would like to use an LDAP overlay so that users are driven with
> current information from our LDAP system.
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> So far, I’ve had RT-Authen-ExternalAuth working, but not in combination with
> Apache Auth. RT External Auth works fine, but forces people to log in
> multiple times to the system,
>
> once for Apache and once for RT. The way users are handled inside
> RT-Authen-ExternalAuth is excellent and ideal for my case.
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> Is there any way to tie this to Apache Basic Auth?
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> I would use an LDAP overlay, but all the docs seem to have been pulled from
> the wiki and now point back to the RT-Authen-ExternalAuth module.
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> I’m running the latest 3.8 RT with 0.08 RT-Authen-ExternalAuth.
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> My other option appears to be to use an SSO cookie auth system and protect
> my server that way and get RT-Authen-ExternalAuth to use the cookie. I was
> really trying to avoid this however as it is massive overkill, well IMO.
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> Thanks for your time,
>
> Dave
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Best regards, Ruslan.
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