[rt-users] RT 4.08 Account creation

[Kevin Falcone]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 01:24:11PM -0500, John Johnston wrote:
>    I've installed RT 4.0.8 on a RHEL 6.2 system and overall it's working fine with one notable
>    exception.  We authenticate users with Shibboleth, and once so authenticated they are able to
>    create tickets.  First time users have their accounts auto-created.  We had a previous
>    instance of RT 3.0.7 and used perl-based forms for ticket creation.  Auto-creation of accounts
>    worked fine, with the displayname, email, and userid returned from Shibboleth and passed to
>    RT.  However, these same forms when used on RT 4.0.8 while they *do* create the account if it
>    doesn't exist, and it does set the "Name" to the email address, the "EmailAddress" itself and
>    "RealName" are left blank.

How do your forms create tickets/accounts?  Using bin/rt or sending
mail as the user or something else?  I can see what you've done with
testing, but knowing how they normally work is helpful.

Unfortunately, without some logs, or a clearer sense of exactly what
runs during the non-debugging form, it's hard to guess at what is
going on.

-kevin

>    This means that users cannot get email on their tickets (confirmatory or otherwise), unless an
>    administrator goes in, selects the account, and manually adds the email address.  I've tried
>    several workarounds, including doing a mysql query to see if the account exists, and if not,
>    to create it using an RT CLI command encased in backticks.  This is contained in our "contact"
>    ticket creation form.  I've experimented with several options, including escaping the "@" in
>    the email address.  Recently, I used Encode to ensure the values obtained from Shibboleth were
>    converted into UTF-8 before being passed to the RT CLI command, and this *sort of* worked.
>    Interestingly, it added the account but dropped the letter "e" from the mymail.edu address (to
>    leave mymail.du).  Also interesting, is if I bypass the Shibboleth values and hard code in an
>    email address like:
> 
>    my $clean_email = [1]"skippy at mailme.edu"
> 
>    And pass it to the RT CLI command like:
> 
>    $result = `/opt/rt4/bin/rt create -t user add Name=$your_netid EmailAddress=$clean_email `;
> 
>    ...again, it works fine.
> 
>    I've been banging my head on this for awhile.  Any insights would be appreciated.
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