[rt-users] RT-Extension-LDAPImport vs RT External Auth plugin modules

[Jeff Solberg]

Thanks Nathan. I apologize for not seeing that these responses were only directed at you and not the list. Sigh. I will try to find time here shortly to sit down and configure the LDAPImport and see if I have any success getting it doing the right thing. I will post my results. Again, thanks for all your help.

Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: Nathan Cutler [mailto:presnypreklad at gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2013 1:30 PM
To: Jeff Solberg
Cc: rt-users at lists.bestpractical.com
Subject: Re: [rt-users] RT-Extension-LDAPImport vs RT External Auth plugin modules

> The RT Server itself is bound by LDAP Authentication using libpam-ldap modules. So Active Directory Authentication is defiantly working as I am logging into this machine with my AD creds. It is binding using the same username and password that I have in my RT External Auth config. I haven’t setup the RT-Extension-LDAP module yet. I just wanted to get some insite on how it worked compared to the other. Will this module work standalone or do you have to use it in conjunction with the RT External Auth plugin?

Hi Jeff:

(Be sure to reply to the list)

As Kevin just wrote, LDAPImport is useless for authentication, so you would only want to use it if you need to get info (not passwords) for a bunch of users into the RT database all at once. The reason why I recommended it was that "bind w/password" might be more difficult to get working than "anonymous bind", which is what LDAPImport uses. So LDAPImport might be a stepping stone to ExternAuth.

Just an idea.