[rt-users] External Authentication

Thomas Sibley trs at bestpractical.com
Wed Jun 26 14:32:29 EDT 2013


On 06/26/2013 10:25 AM, Bryon Baker wrote:
> I agree Thomas.
> 
> As stated before I have the correct information and setup for the
> ODBC drivers I have tested this with isql and tsql and I wrote a
> quick perl scrip to test the connection string and that works.
> 
> What I can's figure out is what information needs to be put in the "
> 'dbi_driver'                =>  'DBI_DRIVER'," so that RT will use
> the DSN entry in the ODBC configs.

RT::Authen::ExternalAuth expects to build a DSN like so:

   dbi:$dbi_driver:database=$db_database;host=$db_server;port=$db_port

Yet ODBC wants a sub-driver, so try this hack:

   dbi_driver => 'ODBC',
   database   => 'FooBar;driver=FreeTDS',



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