Hello,
I am currently setting up rt3 for my company on a centOS 4 box, and I am
having some trouble figuring out how to authenticate against the unix
passwd file. I saw the option to allow RT to trust the apache
authentication, but I’m not sure if this is necessary. I would like to
authenticate with the same box rt is running on. Is there a way to make rt
use pam directly? Thanks for your help,
Claude
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I saw the option to allow RT to trust the apache authentication, but
I’m not sure if this is necessary. I would like to authenticate with
the same box rt is running on. Is there a way to make rt use pam
directly? Thanks for your help,
There’s no simple way to make RT use the unix password file
directly. You could patch it, but it would be far less work to have RT
trust apache, and find an appropriate apache auth module.
Hello,
I am currently setting up rt3 for my company on a centOS 4 box, and I am
having some trouble figuring out how to authenticate against the unix
passwd file. I saw the option to allow RT to trust the apache
authentication, but I’m not sure if this is necessary. I would like to
authenticate with the same box rt is running on. Is there a way to make rt
use pam directly? Thanks for your help,
You can use the mod_auth_pam apache module to let apache use the
same authentication as the rest of the system. You’ll still have
to add the users and configure permissions within RT but apache
will check the system password. Note that if you are using
shadow passwords you’ll have to allow apache to read them, and
if you are using a method (like SMB to a windows domain controller)
that doesn’t involve a real linux account you will need to
put:
account required pam_permit.so
in your /etc/pam.d/httpd file to skip checking anything but
the password.