[rt-users] RES: Re: RES: Re: RT External Auth and uid problem

[Kevin Falcone]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 02:22:35PM -0300, Luciano Ernesto da Silva wrote:
> I will try prefix the numeric username with a character. I don't know
> where start. Can you tell me what functions are involved in user
> creation? 

As I said earlier

>> In the past, people have prefixed numeric usernames with a character,
>> but since I've never had to do that, I do not know the best way to do
>> it.

-kevin

> I think I would have to map the authentication, including a character
> "a" internally before the number and "a" on creation.
> 
> Luciano
> 
> -----Mensagem original-----
> De: rt-users-bounces at lists.bestpractical.com
> [mailto:rt-users-bounces at lists.bestpractical.com] Em nome de Kevin
> Falcone
> Enviada em: quarta-feira, 24 de agosto de 2011 13:42
> Para: rt-users at lists.bestpractical.com
> Assunto: Re: [rt-users] RES: Re: RT External Auth and uid problem
> 
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:26:26PM -0300, Luciano Ernesto da Silva
> wrote:
> > Kevin,
> > 
> > Ok, I understand, I will not touch the extension. But is there a way 
> > to overlay creation of privileged users and allow 'Name' with numeric 
> > field? We have many services that use LDAP and users just use the
> 
> RT does not support numeric usernames.
> Changing that would require significant code churn.
> 
> -kevin
> 
> > uid(numeric) and password. 
> > Would be more friendly keep the same method. 
> > The last option would use Name = > 'mail' in 'attr_map', but I don't 
> > think this a good solution.
> > 
> > 
> > -----Mensagem original-----
> > De: rt-users-bounces at lists.bestpractical.com
> > [mailto:rt-users-bounces at lists.bestpractical.com] Em nome de Kevin 
> > Falcone Enviada em: quarta-feira, 24 de agosto de 2011 11:13
> > Para: rt-users at lists.bestpractical.com
> > Assunto: Re: [rt-users] RT External Auth and uid problem
> > 
> > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 10:54:22AM -0300, Luciano Ernesto da Silva
> > wrote:
> > >
> > 'attr_match_list'           => [
> > >    'Name',  'EmailAddress',  'RealName'],
> > > 
> > >                                                            # The
> > mapping of RT attributes on to
> > >    LDAP attributes
> > > 
> > >
> 'attr_map'
> > =>  {
> > >    'Name' => 'uid', 'EmailAddress' => 'mail',  'RealName' => 'cn', 
> > > 'ExternalAuthId' => 'uid' }
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > >    In the extension ExternalAuth I changed all  the strings "Name" 
> > > for
> > "NickName" and seems work,
> > >    but I still cant't create users.
> > 
> > Do you meant you literally replaced all occurrences of Name with 
> > NickName in the extension?  That will never work.
> > 
> > If you have a non-numeric field, just fix attr_map so that Name => 
> > 'non_numeric_ldap_field'
> > 
> > Also, you almost certainly don't want attr_match_list to consider 
> > RealName to be unique.  That would mean that you can't have two users 
> > in RT with the name Kevin Falcone since the extension will try to 
> > resolve them to the same AD user.
> > 
> > -kevin
> > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > >    I thought a solution creating a local/lib overlay for create a 
> > > user
> > with NickName to use as
> > >    uid number, and keep RealName for cn, and EmailAdddress for mail.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > >    What function in lib is used to create the users? Can you give me
> > some tips?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > >    Thanks for your help,
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > >    Luciano Silva
> > > 
> > >    [1]Luciano at cpd.ufrgs.br
> > > 
> > > References
> > > 
> > >    Visible links
> > >    1. mailto:Luciano at cpd.ufrgs.br
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