[rt-users] RT::Authen::ExternalAuth Installed need Help

[Kevin Falcone]

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 01:27:08AM -0800, john s. wrote:
> 
> I don't exactly what I'm talking about .. so I'LL describe in which way
> should it work 
> 
> The Authentification Server is an ActiveDirectory on an Windows2008 Server 
> 
> so if you Logged in in the Main network system with username and Password
> you have automallically 
> 
> access to the rt interface without double authentification 
> 
> in fact .... the AD server should handle the Authentification to the RT
> -Server 
> 
> maybe if it's fail an fallback to RT Authentifiaction would be nice but at
> the moment it isn't necessary.
> 
> An other   option is to make the authentification  from AD to Apache ... so
> this would be fit too.
> 
> like i said my background knowledge at this sector is very small 

You sound like you're describing SPNEGO, which isn't what
RT-Authen-ExternalAuth provides.  Folks normally use mod_auth_kerb or
one of the commercial versions of that module to accomplish it.

-kevin

> Giuseppe Sollazzo-2 wrote:
> > 
> > Hi John,
> > you talk about SSO but it's not clear from what you say if you either 
> > want authentication based on
> > - SSO
> > - LDAP
> > - SSO using LDAP
> > 
> > Can you please clarify?
> > 
> > On 23/02/11 08:55, john s. wrote:
> >>
> >> Good Morning all
> >>
> >> I've installed the External Auth Plugin for our RT System.
> >>
> >>
> >> But now i have no clue how to tackle it.
> >>
> >> My Knowledge about SSO is really really  limited
> >>
> >>
> >> So can sb give me a hint to start the Challenge to get a good funcitonal
> >> connection to my LDAP Server ( Windows 2008) ?
> >>
> >> it would be really nice
> >>
> >> best regards john
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>    
> > 
> > 
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