[rt-users] Recommended method for autocreating users with Active Directory and Authen-ExternalAuth

[Ken Crocker]

LB,

This would be REALLY help for me. I've been doing this one user at a 
time whenever I get some frre time (which isn't ofetn). I'd love a copy 
of your code. Thanks.

Kenn
LBNL

On 1/14/2010 10:34 AM, L B wrote:
>  I'm going to think about it, but the problem I see it that email
> addresses might not be unique (I mean we can have two AD accounts with
> the same email address).
>
>  I have already done a script to mass-rename email addresses to AD
> logins, because we use AD authentication for a long time and we wanted
> to make the users use their AD login instead of their email address.
> This script is not linked to the plugin, but I think it might be
> useful for some admins. I can upload it on the wiki or maybe it can be
> part of an "extras" directory in the plugin package. I have to cleanup
> my code and make it generic, but it does the job, I already applied it
> successfully on many RT instances.
>
> Don't you think
> http://www.zanfur.com/rt3-contrib/AutoCreateFromExternalUserInfo/CurrentUser_Local.pm
> but using RT-Authen-ExternalAuth variables could do the on-the-fly job
> ? Maybe with some stuff to check duplicates etc...
>
> If you think it doesn't, can you or Mike point me into the good
> direction to (try to) develop it ?
>
> Thanks !
>