Samba and rt?

RT Users
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I have been asked to get our RT2 installation to use samba for
authentication. I couldn’t find anything in the places I know where to
look…google and bestpractical. Is doing such a thing preposterous?

I haven’t looked into this at all yet, but it seems tricky. Like the
best way would be to

user logs in - authenticate against NT via samba
RT sees if user exists:
true, update passwd in mysql user table
false, create user
RT sets user session

It doesn’t seem like there’s any feasible way to move away from mysql
for the user data.

thanks
rick

Rick Rezinas 503-889-7091
Unix Systems Administrator
Qsent, Inc.

When Gladstone was British Prime Minister he visited Michael Faraday’s
laboratory and asked if some esoteric substance called `Electricity’
would ever have practical significance.
“One day, sir, you will tax it,” was the answer.
– Science, 1994

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I have been asked to get our RT2 installation to use samba for
authentication. I couldn’t find anything in the places I know where to
look…google and bestpractical. Is doing such a thing preposterous?

Well, it’s easy, and at least passably documented. You set RT’s
$WebExternalAuth, and you use one many ways to get apache to auth
against smb. You can even autocreate users, though it takes a bit of
code. if you don’t want to much about writing code, look for my
code snippet. it creates the function WebExternalAutoInfo

seph