[rt-users] LDAP and ext. Auth for a better understanding...

[Nick Kartsioukas]

On Tue, 05 Apr 2011 22:06 +0200, wac at yellowhippy.com wrote:
> My question is what happens if we have an external authorisation, like
> LDAP...
> Does RT copy the user information to its internal database? Or how  
> does it make sure that the user information is stored? Since I can  
> easily delete users from my LDAP.

RT will create a user in its own database, using the field mappings set
up in your RT-ExternalAuth section of RT-SiteConfig.  It won't store the
password locally though, it will keep hitting LDAP for login
authentication.