[rt-users] Login in unix

[Marc Chantreux]

On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 12:44:16PM +1300, Aaron Guise wrote:
> You cannot.  The users created in the Web UI are only for RT.  To login to *NIX
> you need to create the user at the OS level.  

> Of course you could do the user creation with a scrip once the user is
> created.  Not sure I would though as personally I prefer to closely control
> whom gets access to my systems.    

you should consider investiguating some PAM/NSS solutions to use the RT
table "users" to provide de passwd database.

# aptitude search '~npam ~nsql' -F '%p %d' 

libpam-mysql                       Module PAM permettant l'authentification depu
libpam-mysql:i386                  Module PAM permettant l'authentification depu
libpam-pgsql                       Module PAM pour  l'authentification depuis un
libpam-pgsql:i386                  Module PAM pour  l'authentification depuis un


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