[rt-users] Can RT Authen ExternalAuth change account name to match Active Directory?

[Mark A Bentley]

On Thu, 17 Feb 2011, Kevin Falcone wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:30:21AM -0800, Mark A Bentley wrote:
>>
>>
>> I'm using The RT::Authen::ExternalAuth Plugin, and all is working nicely.
>>
>> The one things that I'd like is that when a user logs in, in addition to
>> updating the various account info (Real Name, Address, etc), I would like
>> the actual RT account username to be updated to match the account name
>> in Active Directory.
>
> RT-Authen-ExternalAuth currently has no code to handle this.
> You might be able to do it with RT-Extension-LDAPImporter, but fixing
> RT-Authen-ExternalAuth to handle it has been a longstanding feature
> request
>

Kevin, Thanks for the pointer,

RT-Extension-LDAPImporter does exactly what I need.

    --Mark