[rt-users] [Rt-announce] RT for Mobile Devices 0.9

[Jason A. Smith]

On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 11:45 -0400, testwreq wreq wrote:
> Is WebExternalAuth the windows authentication? I am trying to
> integrate RT with AD and I am wondering what WebExternalAuth exactly
> does when turned on?

It just makes RT defer authentication to any external source, like
Apache.  In our case, we are using Stanford's WebAuth and a few extra
config lines to make RT use our non-standard user variable name since
WebAuth can't change apache's REMOTE_USER:

# Make RT use the WebAuth HTTP_X_MYREMOTE_USER variable instead of Apache's REMOTE_USER:
use RT::Interface::Web;
{ no warnings 'redefine';
   sub RT::Interface::Web::WebCanonicalizeInfo {
     return $ENV{'HTTP_X_MYREMOTE_USER'} ? lc $ENV{'HTTP_X_MYREMOTE_USER'} : $ENV{'HTTP_X_MYREMOTE_USER'};
   }
}


> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Jesse Vincent
> <jesse at bestpractical.com> wrote:
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>         On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 09:31:07AM -0400, testwreq wreq wrote:
>         > With WebExternalAuth, you never see the login screen. How is
>         the
>         > authentication working?
>         > Thanks, vm
>         
>         
>         It should work exactly the same way as the desktop UI.
> 

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