On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 07:34:56PM +0100, L B wrote: > I'm going to think about it, but the problem I see it that email > addresses might not be unique (I mean we can have two AD accounts with > the same email address).
Yep, this is one of the complications. You'd have to canonicalize it back to the user currently in RT based on username > I have already done a script to mass-rename email addresses to AD > logins, because we use AD authentication for a long time and we wanted > to make the users use their AD login instead of their email address. > This script is not linked to the plugin, but I think it might be > useful for some admins. I can upload it on the wiki or maybe it can be > part of an "extras" directory in the plugin package. I have to cleanup > my code and make it generic, but it does the job, I already applied it > successfully on many RT instances. > > Don't you think > http://www.zanfur.com/rt3-contrib/AutoCreateFromExternalUserInfo/CurrentUser_Local.pm > but using RT-Authen-ExternalAuth variables could do the on-the-fly job > ? Maybe with some stuff to check duplicates etc... I've not read this code enough to know how it would integrate with RT-Authen-ExternalAuth, and I'm not likely to have time to go digging through it anytime this month unfortunately :( -kevin
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