[rt-users] Hash not found?

2013-02-26 Thread Robert Nesius
After upgrading to 4.0.10, after authenticating RT is redirecting to:

http://server.domain.com/HASH(0xhexadecimal)

And the server is throwing a "page not found" error.  If I click "Home" or
just remove the Hash from the URL, everything is fine.

Quick google searches came up blank... anyone else seeing this?

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[rt-users] Thx Best Practical Devs!

2013-02-23 Thread Robert Nesius

I upgraded my RT 4.0.4 install to 4.0.10 last night.  I just wanted to give a 
tip of the hat to best-practical team for making that a very smooth process.  
3.8.x to 4.0 was necessarily a bit of a bear - and even that was pretty darned 
smooth.   But the dot-release upgrade was cake. 

Thanks guys! :) 

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Re: [rt-users] Extra new-lines in emails from RT

2013-02-21 Thread Robert Nesius
Should have searched more first I guess

Looks like this is what I need.
http://bestpractical.com/rt/docs/4.0/RT_Config.html#CheckMoreMSMailHeaders

I don't see this option in my configs - would be nice if the docs showed
the version these config settings first appeared in, though I suppose I
could grep change logs for that too.  Even so would be kind of nice.

-Rob



On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Robert Nesius  wrote:

>
> I'm running on RT 4.0.4.  I thought I had this problem licked - but
> recently noticed the ticket system is sending me emails that have extra
> new-lines in them.
>
> I've reproduced this by:
> * Creating a ticket via email
> * Adding a reply to the ticket in RT - the email I receive is formatted
> correctly and is formatted as plaintext
> * I then respond to THAT email (Client = Outlook 2007, Format = Plaintext)
> and the response from the ticket system has added extra line-breaks to the
> message.
>
> Is there a patch for this or has this been fixed in a newer version?  I'm
> not wanting to stop and upgrade RT right now.  I'll do some more
> digging/searching but thought I'd poke my head in here and ask first.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> -Rob
>


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[rt-users] Extra new-lines in emails from RT

2013-02-21 Thread Robert Nesius
I'm running on RT 4.0.4.  I thought I had this problem licked - but
recently noticed the ticket system is sending me emails that have extra
new-lines in them.

I've reproduced this by:
* Creating a ticket via email
* Adding a reply to the ticket in RT - the email I receive is formatted
correctly and is formatted as plaintext
* I then respond to THAT email (Client = Outlook 2007, Format = Plaintext)
and the response from the ticket system has added extra line-breaks to the
message.

Is there a patch for this or has this been fixed in a newer version?  I'm
not wanting to stop and upgrade RT right now.  I'll do some more
digging/searching but thought I'd poke my head in here and ask first.

Thanks in advance for any help.

-Rob


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Re: [rt-users] Web-UI navigation question

2012-11-13 Thread Robert Nesius
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Kevin Falcone
wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 05:30:46PM -0500, Robert Nesius wrote:
> > Both myself and fellow RT Users have noticed the following little quirk
> in
> > navigating the UI.
> >
> > * While looking at a list of tickets (like My Tickets), we click on a
> > ticket.
> > * We resolve the ticket.
> > * RT updates the view and says the ticket is solved.
> >
> > What would be mega handy is a link here "Back to previous list view" or
> > something.  But instead what we have to do is navigate to the top of RT
> and
> > then click on My Tickets to get back to the list we had before.  I'm on
> > 4.0.3 - anyone know if this has been streamlined in later releases?  Or
> if
> > there's a way to accomplish this that I haven't figured out yet?  I tried
> > making a saved search and a dashboard, but I still need multiple clicks
> to
> > get to the list view I want.
>
> If you click on the header for My Tickets to get a full listing and
> then click on a ticket, you'll tell RT "This search is my current
> search" and if you hover over Tickets, you'll see a number of links
> for next/prev first/last and for seeing the whole result again.
>
> Unfortunately, clicking on a ticket from the homepage isn't enough to
> trigger the "this is my current search" behavior.
>

Thank you, Kevin!  That's most of what I was looking for and will be very
helpful!

-Rob

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[rt-users] Web-UI navigation question

2012-10-19 Thread Robert Nesius
Both myself and fellow RT Users have noticed the following little quirk in
navigating the UI.

* While looking at a list of tickets (like My Tickets), we click on a
ticket.
* We resolve the ticket.
* RT updates the view and says the ticket is solved.

What would be mega handy is a link here "Back to previous list view" or
something.  But instead what we have to do is navigate to the top of RT and
then click on My Tickets to get back to the list we had before.  I'm on
4.0.3 - anyone know if this has been streamlined in later releases?  Or if
there's a way to accomplish this that I haven't figured out yet?  I tried
making a saved search and a dashboard, but I still need multiple clicks to
get to the list view I want.

Thanks in advance for any tips/suggestions.

-Rob


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Re: [rt-users] rt-mailgate

2012-01-24 Thread Robert Nesius
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Allen wrote:

> Landon wrote:
>
>> We simply use mod_rewrite to redirect everyone *except* the server itself
>> to https.  This way when rt-mailgate calls http://rt.ourdomain/com it is
>> not forced to use https while everyone else is.
>>
>
Landon - thank you for sharing those config lines.  I had debated exactly
that approach but had not dug into the mod-rewrite docs far enough to get
that line on my own.  Though - as I look at it - pretty simple regular
expression. :)   Thanks again!

Thanks. That is an easy, maintainable solution until the next version of
>> rt-mailgate that will let us specify the cert path, or until OpenSSL 1.x
>> gets it's act together with LWP.
>>
>
> But doesn't work for me. I solved some kind of mod-perl/apache
> redeclaration or some such problem (either spamming the logs or making
> apache not start -- cant remember which) that I solved by removing all RT
> apache configuration under regular http and just having the redirect to
> SSL. The SSL virtualhost container has the RT configs in it.
>

One other thought crossed my mind reading your earlier comments about
getting the environment variable into LWP::UserAgent via fetchmail configs.
 I think "export VAR=VALUE" is bash-specific syntax.  If the fetchmailrc
file is being read by /bin/sh, or bash running in /bin/sh compatibility
mode, that syntax could cause a problem.You might try this:  "VAR=VALUE
/opt/rt4/bin/rt-mailgate ... ".   That syntax works for me via my aliases
file and is what I use in crontabs too.  I did see you use that syntax with
the env command - I've never tried that before myself but I've never needed
it either.

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Re: [rt-users] rt-mailgate

2012-01-20 Thread Robert Nesius
I figured out a work around for this issue.  I was suspicious that
LWP::UserAgent could not reach the cert for the CA that signed the cert
being presented by the web server.  I learned there are some environment
variables that I can leverage to influence where LWP::UserAgent looks even
though it's being invoked down inside a program I don't want to touch.
Adding my /etc/ssl/certs directory to the list of directories examined for
certs solved the problem.

*root@linux:/opt/rt4/bin# *./rt-mailgate --debug --action=correspond
--queue=ToDo --url=https://request.domain.com < ~/test.msg
./rt-mailgate: temp file is '/tmp/MqO8Gyi3SW/ILtfyOuDPb'
./rt-mailgate: connecting to
https://request.domain.com/REST/1.0/NoAuth/mail-gateway
An Error Occurred
=

500 Can't connect to
request.domain.com:443 (certificate
verify failed)

./rt-mailgate: undefined server error

*root@linux:/opt/rt4/bin# *export PERL_LWP_SSL_CA_PATH=/etc/ssl/certs

*root@linux:/opt/rt4/bin#* ./rt-mailgate --debug --action=correspond
--queue=ToDo --url=https://request.domain.com < ~/test.msg
./rt-mailgate: temp file is '/tmp/rn88yVfFtr/IVe9YYO9IY'
./rt-mailgate: connecting to
https://request.domain.com/REST/1.0/NoAuth/mail-gateway
okTicket: 7698Queue: ToDoOwner: ran1Status: newSubject: testRequestor:
robert.nes...@domani.com

Inspiration for the fix:
http://colinnewell.wordpress.com/2011/03/11/ssl-host-checking-and-lwpuseragent/

Ultimately I suppose I can wrap rt-mailgate with a script that sets the
environment variable and exec's rt-mailgate, or I could perhaps embed
setting the environment variable along with the invocation of rt-mailgate
in the aliases file.  I'll figure something out.

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Re: [rt-users] rt-mailgate

2012-01-10 Thread Robert Nesius
Thanks for the suggestions guys.

I finally just turned off my re-write rule that was re-directing http to
https and side-stepped the rt-mailgate ssl failure all together.  Not
ideal, but in practice very few of my users log into RT directly so it's a
configuration I can live with short term while I figure out the real issue.


I've configured postfix to hand messages to the aliases for my queues
directly to rt-mailgate.  It is rt-mailgate that cannot verify the ssl
certificate that my web server is presenting it.  None of my web browsers
have trouble with it, so it feels like an rt-mailgate configuration issue.
I can repro the issue on the command line

root@linux:~# /opt/rt4/bin/rt-mailgate --debug --queue 'general' --action
correspond --url https://request.domain.com/ < ~/test.msg
/opt/rt4/bin/rt-mailgate: temp file is '/tmp/XOCrOYAr8p/vkVDTmoszI'
/opt/rt4/bin/rt-mailgate: connecting to
https://request.domain.com//REST/1.0/NoAuth/mail-gateway
An Error Occurred
=

500 Can't connect to
request.domain.com:443 (certificate
verify failed)

/opt/rt4/bin/rt-mailgate: undefined server error

-Rob


On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Izz Abdullah wrote:

> And if that doesn't work, since I have a certificate with a domain name
> (although signed by our internal CA which all of our PCs trust), I had to
> put in below where Mauricio put in https://localhost, I actually needed
> to use my dns name in which the certificate is assigned (e.g. https://MyRT
> )
>
> My $0.02 worth as well. :)
>
> -Original Message-
> From: rt-users-boun...@lists.bestpractical.com [mailto:
> rt-users-boun...@lists.bestpractical.com] On Behalf Of Mauricio Tavares
> Sent: Monday, January 09, 2012 4:02 PM
> To: rt-users@lists.bestpractical.com
> Subject: Re: [rt-users] rt-mailgate
>
> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Robert Nesius  wrote:
> > I made a recently change to how my apache2 server was configured to
> > redirect all requests through https.  Now emails are not flowing
> > through to RT - I tracked the issue down to rt-mailgate complaining
> > about not being able to verify the certificate.  I'm a little
> > perplexed on how to proceed or how to verify what certs/CAs
> > rt-mailgate is using, or if there is an issue with the Crypt::SSLeay
> module (which I had to force install due to a failing test).
> > I only have one openssl install on the system, and I thought
> > Crypt::SSLeay would reach through to those configs for things like CA
> certs, etc...
> >
> > Perhaps an easy workaround, since the mail server and apache2 server
> > are on the same machine, would be to configure a "localhost:80"
> > virtual host within
> > apache2 and bypass SSL when accessing RT via that url.
> >
> > Any helpful hints/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.   I've
> > been google-ing away but haven't had any luck yet.
> >
>  AFAIK, rt-mailgate connects to RT using RT's web interface; it should
> use whatever cert you have defined in the virtual host entry for RT. Here
> is how my fetchmailrc calls rt-mailgate:
>
> mda "/usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/rt-mailgate --url https://localhost/rt \
> --queue support --action correspond"
>
> > -Rob
> >
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[rt-users] rt-mailgate

2012-01-09 Thread Robert Nesius
I made a recently change to how my apache2 server was configured to
redirect all requests through https.  Now emails are not flowing through to
RT - I tracked the issue down to rt-mailgate complaining about not being
able to verify the certificate.  I'm a little perplexed on how to proceed
or how to verify what certs/CAs rt-mailgate is using, or if there is an
issue with the Crypt::SSLeay module (which I had to force install due to a
failing test).   I only have one openssl install on the system, and I
thought Crypt::SSLeay would reach through to those configs for things like
CA certs, etc...

Perhaps an easy workaround, since the mail server and apache2 server are on
the same machine, would be to configure a "localhost:80" virtual host
within apache2 and bypass SSL when accessing RT via that url.

Any helpful hints/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.   I've been
google-ing away but haven't had any luck yet.

-Rob

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Re: [rt-users] BKM for deployment of RT's perl

2011-10-27 Thread Robert Nesius
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Thomas Sibley wrote:

>
> perlbrew + a fastcgi deployment (so you don't need your own mod_perl) works
> great.
>
>
Perlbrew looks exactly like what I should have used in the first place.  I
feel like a bit of a noob now - thanks for the pointers!

Jok - thanks for your insightful tip about lib::local + modperl flags as
well!

Thanks again, all.   :)

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[rt-users] BKM for deployment of RT's perl

2011-10-27 Thread Robert Nesius
Hi all,

Just curious how some of you provision perl to RT.  I am running over my
server-distro's apache2/perl, and during a recent upgrade the system perl
was moved forward and suddenly my modules disappeared.  I was able to patch
it up without too much trouble, but did find myself debating rolling my own
perl/mod_perl so I could roll the distro forward in the future without
having to worry about blowing up RT again.

Just curious how some of you approach this detail.

Thanks in advance,
-Rob

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[rt-users] Creating New User via web UI errors out (3.8.6)

2010-02-18 Thread Robert Nesius
My RT install is presently configured to authenticate against RT's mysql
database, and two LDAP (AD, really) sources.  I'm trying to create an
account via the web U/I with the intention of adding a new user whose
credentials are hosted in RT's mysql DB.  I figured out I had a bad mapping
for RT Attributes to Fields.  I fixed that, but the new user creation
process seems to fail because RT::ExternalAuth can't find the user.  That
seems odd, since I'm creating a user, so how can it exist yet?

Thoughts?

Here's the error logs from apache's error.log (anonymized).

[Thu Feb 18 20:31:18 2010] [critical]:
RT::Authen::ExternalAuth::DBI::CanonicalizeUserInfo  Nothing to look-up
given
(/opt/rt3/local/plugins/RT-Authen-ExternalAuth/lib/RT/Authen/ExternalAuth/DBI.pm:144)
[Thu Feb 18 20:31:18 2010] [info]:
RT::Authen::ExternalAuth::DBI::CanonicalizeUserInfo INFO CHECK FAILED Key:
Name Value: userFOO No User Found in External Database!
(/opt/rt3/local/plugins/RT-Authen-ExternalAuth/lib/RT/Authen/ExternalAuth/DBI.pm:179)
[Thu Feb 18 20:31:18 2010] [info]:
RT::Authen::ExternalAuth::CanonicalizeUserInfo returning Address1: ,
Address2: , AuthSystem: , City: , Comments: , ContactInfoSystem: , Country:
, Disabled: 0, EmailAddress: user...@example.com, EmailEncoding: ,
ExternalAuthId: , ExternalContactInfoId: , FreeformContactInfo: , Gecos: ,
HomePhone: , Lang: en, MobilePhone: , Name: foobar, NickName: Foo,
Organization: , PagerPhone: , Privileged: 1, RealName: Foo Bar, Signature: ,
State: , WebEncoding: , WorkPhone: , Zip:
(/opt/rt3/local/plugins/RT-Authen-ExternalAuth/lib/RT/Authen/ExternalAuth.pm:536)

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[rt-users] ToDo example in 3.8

2009-12-07 Thread Robert Nesius
I decided to give the ToDo example a try under RT 3.8.6.  I've successfully
made a ScripAction that assigns the scrip to the submitter on creation -
yay.  However, I haven't found a combination of rights that allows the
submitter to actually "close the ticket".  Before pounding my head on this
any further, I'm suspicious that perhaps unprivileged users are not allowed
to modify tickets even if they've been given the right... so just wanted to
sanity check things before debugging further.  The same set of rights given
to privileged users does allow privileged users to close the ticket...

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[rt-users] RT's model for privileged users

2009-12-02 Thread Robert Nesius
Originally when pre-populating my user database, I thought it made sense to
make all of my users privileged so I could easily assign them to groups - I
noticed unprivileged users were not displayed in the user-management
interface by default.  But what I'm seeing now is that there is a 'great
divide' between privileged and unprivileged users in RT.  Specifically,
unprivileged users get the SelfService interface automatically, which is the
interface most users would want most of the time.  Being "privileged" in RT
seems to inherently imply being "a ticket resolver" due to the dramatically
different interface presented by RT.

I was about to run off and modify RT to present the SelfService interface to
privileged users who can't own tickets when it occurred to me "What's the
difference?  Why not make the general user unprivileged?".   On the one
hand, in my present use-model I suspect it doesn't matter.  On the other
hand, I perceive there is functionality like dashboards that can't be
exposed to people if they are unprivileged, though having dashboards publish
themselves via an email address would work around that I suppose (I think
they can do that?).

In any case, is this the right paradigm?
* privileged = ticket resolvers
* Unprivileged = ticket submitters?

I sense having all of my users be privileged is going against the design
philosophy of RT, and would appreciate any clarification or insights from
other RT admins.

Thanks much!
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Re: [rt-users] User Rights

2009-12-02 Thread Robert Nesius
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Ken Crocker  wrote:

>  Robert,
>
> For that particular Queue, I would:
>
> 1) Grant "CreateTicket" to "Everyone" or "Privileged, as you prefer.
> 2) Grant "ShowQueue" to "Everyone" or "Privileged, as you prefer.
> 3) Grant "ShowTicket" to the role "Requestor".
> 4) Grant "ShowTicket" and any other rights you want to the role "AdminCc".
>
> That should do it.
>
>
Thanks Ken, between you and Jesse I got most of the way there, and the final
"ah-ha" just hit me.

I'll share my learning/thoughts here in case it helps people in the future.


Basically, all of my employees are privileged users, so they get the "RT At
A Glance" (r...@ag) page.  I have the "quick create" in the r...@ag page, so
that seemed logical.  But when a customer's ticket was assigned to an admin,
it was no longer visible on the r...@ag page because I don't have "show
tickets" turned on for the general queue.  However, clicking on "quick
search" and then typing "general" into the search box resulted in the
correct list of tickets being presented - the tickets owned by the
customer.  However, expecting my end-users to jump through that many clicks
is expecting too much.  I tried finding away to enable a "my tickets" portal
to r...@ag where "my" = "submitter", but couldn't find it.  It finally
occurred to me the SelfService interface might have the "view" I'm looking
for, and sure enough it does.  I see some mods on the wiki to add "If user
can't own ticket redirect to self-service" functionality, which is probably
how I'll go.  However, a LINK to the self service page on the r...@ag page
would be handy.  Even better - a portal/module for SelfService that I could
add to r...@ag would be slick.

In any case, I have a clear path to a usable end-state.

Thanks again for your help and advice!

-Rob
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Re: [rt-users] User Rights

2009-12-02 Thread Robert Nesius
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Jesse Vincent wrote:

>
> On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 11:54:40AM -0600, Robert Nesius wrote:
> > The part I'm struggling with is that I can' find away to allow the queue
> to
> > be visible in the drop-down box for the "create a ticket" interface
> without
> > seemingly allowing all of the tickets in the queue to be visible.
>
> I believe you want to grant "See Queue" and "Create Ticket" but not "Show
> Ticket"
>
>
Ah-ha.  That lead me to the solution I was looking for.  Thanks very much,
Jesse!

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[rt-users] User Rights

2009-12-02 Thread Robert Nesius
I've been struggling to find the right combination of access control
settings for a queue that will result in the following:
* Users can submit tickets, and can see their own tickets.
* Users cannot see other people's tickets.
* Admins can see all tickets.

The part I'm struggling with is that I can' find away to allow the queue to
be visible in the drop-down box for the "create a ticket" interface without
seemingly allowing all of the tickets in the queue to be visible.

It strikes me I might be "going against the grain" of RT's design again,
which means I should probably ask some for some experts to weigh in.

Thanks so much,
-Rob
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Re: [rt-users] Pruning email responses

2009-11-25 Thread Robert Nesius
Thanks very much, Mike.

My experience with ticket systems in the past is a bit different from RT,
and your post illuminated that more clearly.   The work flow i've used in
the past is:

Customer -> Support  - Help
Support -> Customer  - clarifying question (which creates an email)
customer -> support - response (via email)
support -> customer - another question or detail (via email)

During these interactions happening in email, the ticket system is CC'd and
silently logs each new iteration into the ticket history, from which the
entire history can be replayed.  Additionally, the ticket system always
displayed all past interactions underneath the new data... so it could be
referenced if necessary.

I see now more clearly RT isn't quite intended to work that way and that the
intent is for ticket owners to really use the web application as the
interface versus email.  I think that's a paradigm shift I can make.  I'm
not sure I like it, but I think that feeling of discomfort stems from a lack
of experience, and over time I may even like RT's approach better.

Thanks again for your very articulate and illuminating response.

-Rob


On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Mike Johnson wrote:

>  This isn't exactly what you are wanting, but a suitable workaround, and
> is actually what I believe to be RT's intent.
>
> There are 2 ways to initiate a communication out of RT to an end user.
> What I like to call Global reply button, and Inline reply button.
>
> Global reply button, located at the very top of the page when displaying a
> ticket, just opens the comment form with a blank text area(unless you have a
> signature it is including).
>
> Inline reply button, located beside each transaction within the history of
> the ticket, opens up the comment form with the transaction associated to the
> reply button you clicked copied into the message area.
>
> The reasoning behind this(I believe) is so that you can specifically
> reference a transaction(typically a previous communication from the
> customer) when replying OR asking something new of the customer related to
> the ticket itself.
>
> Now, out-of-the-box, RT doesn't allow you to control what is being pulled
> into the ticket from the external actions(customer replying to your
> correspondence).  But, if you are controlling what is going out, that will
> "somewhat" control what the customer will reply back with.  If you teach
> your RT users to use the 2 different ways of replying, it can save you the
> hassle of having to strip old messages.
>
> The reasoning behind the 2 replies can also be applied to how the customer
> would reply to RT as well.  Most customers will simply hit reply, which will
> include what they are replying about...
>
> Should for whatever reason that customer's reply be related to a previous
> communication... it will be included in their reply... I personally wouldn't
> want to strip that out, it provides context to their communication.
>
> Again, just my personal opinions above, but I think it makes a solid case
> for not having to do any customization to RT...
>
> Good Luck!
>
>
>  Mike Johnson
> Datatel Programmer/Analyst
> Northern Ontario School of Medicine
> 955 Oliver Road
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> (705)-662-7120 or (807)-766-7500
>
>
> >>> Robert Nesius  25/11/2009 2:30 pm >>>
>
>
> The environment I'm about to roll out RT into is pretty much 100%
> Outlook/Exchange. Something I'm noticing is that when I respond to a ticket
> via email, not only is my response included, but the entire thread
> underneath it. I'd like to RT to drop everything beginning from the pattern
> of:
>
> /^- Original Message - .*/
>
>
> I'm having a hard time tracking down where exactly to do this trimming... I
> figured out rt-mailgate is just feeding a parsed mime object to the server,
> so somewhere in the server code that handles responses I'd need to prune
> that. I can't imagine I'm the first person to want this, but I can't find an
> extension or config option. Can someone point me in the right direction -
> either to the correct area in the source to consider, or to docs about
> config options I'm missed?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> -Rob
>
>
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[rt-users] Pruning email responses

2009-11-25 Thread Robert Nesius
The environment I'm about to roll out RT into is pretty much 100%
Outlook/Exchange.  Something I'm noticing is that when I respond to a ticket
via email, not only is my response included, but the entire thread
underneath it.  I'd like to RT to drop everything beginning from the pattern
of:

/^- Original Message - .*/


  I'm having a hard time tracking down where exactly to do this trimming...
I figured out rt-mailgate is just feeding a parsed mime object to the
server, so somewhere in the server code that handles responses I'd need to
prune that.   I can't imagine I'm the first person to want this, but I can't
find an extension or config option.  Can someone point me in the right
direction - either to the correct area in the source to consider, or to docs
about config options I'm missed?

Thanks in advance.

-Rob
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[rt-users] Lots of new lines....

2009-11-25 Thread Robert Nesius
In testing email interactions with RT, I'm observing the following behavior
with 3.8.6:

Original message:
> Testing html-ized mail
>
> -Rob

What I see coming back from RT
 begin 

Testing html-ized mail.













-Rob
















 end 

Actually - I'm observing this with plaintext messages too. :(
-Rob
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[rt-users] making sets of users priveleged

2009-10-27 Thread Robert Nesius
I just imported a bunch of users from ldap and realized after the fact I
forgot to make sure they were imported as privileged users.  I've been
casting about for a recipe/tool to flip that sets that bit for lots of
people at once and have struck out.  Might someone be able to point me in
the right direction?

Thanks for your help,
-Rob
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Re: [rt-users] LDAP with AD RT:3.8.4 ExternalAuth

2009-09-21 Thread Robert Nesius
 >>  Set(@Plugins,qw(RT::FM));

You need to turn on the extension by adding the
RT::Authen::ExternalAuth module to that quoted array.

Also, I saw this below:

>> # The username RT should use to connect to the LDAP server
>> 'user'  =>  'AD_Info\\LDAP',
>> 'pass'    =>  'pass',

That may or may not work.  If your user is LDAP, you may actually need
to use: l...@domain.yourcompany.com, and you may need to add the
@domain.yourcompany.com as an auto-appended suffix so your users can
log on with their basic username.

-Rob

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Beryl N. Snyder  wrote:
>
> I am running RT 3.8.4 with the RT::Authen::ExternalAuth plugin.  My Request 
> tracker server  does not appear to be accessing the AD server for login.   If 
> I run  tcpdump I  do not see a connection to the AD server being attempted 
> and the local logins still work. Is there another config file I need to 
> change?  I would be grateful for any help.
>
>
>
> The RT_SiteConfig.pm
>
>
>
> Set($LogToSyslog,'debug');
>
> # THE BASICS:
>
>
>
> Set($rtname, 'support.example.org');
>
> Set($Organization, 'example.org');
>
> Set($CorrespondAddress , 'bsny...@domain.com');
>
> Set($CommentAddress , 'comment-t...@domain.com');
>
> Set($Timezone , 'US/Mountan'); # obviously choose what suits you
>
>
>
> #LDAP
>
> Set(@Plugins,qw(RT::Authen::ExternalAuth));
>
>
>
>
>
> Set($ExternalAuthPriority,  ['My_LDAP']);
>
> Set($ExternalInfoPriority, ['My_LDAP']);
>
>
>
> Set($ExternalSettings,  {'My_LDAP'   =>  {
>
> ## GENERIC SECTION
>
> # The type of service (db/ldap/cookie)
>
>    'type'  =>  'ldap',
>
> # The server hosting the service
>
>     'server'    =>  '10.x.x.x', #Ip  Addy is correct
>
> ## SERVICE-SPECIFIC SECTION
>
> # If you can bind to your LDAP server anonymously you should
>
> # remove the user and pass config lines, otherwise specify them here:
>
> #
>
> # The username RT should use to connect to the LDAP server
>
> 'user'  =>  'AD_Info\\LDAP',
>
> 'pass'    =>  'pass',
>
>     #
>
> # The LDAP search base
>
> 'base'  =>  'ou=*,dc=DCinfo,dc=local',
>
> #
>
> # ALL FILTERS MUST BE VALID LDAP FILTERS ENCASED IN PARENTHESES!
>
> # YOU **MUST** SPECIFY A filter AND A d_filter!!
>
> #
>
> # The filter to use to match RT-Users
>
> 'filter'    =>  '(objectClass=*)',
>
> # A catch-all example filter: '(objectClass=*)'
>
> #
>
> # The filter that will only match disabled users
>
> 'd_filter'      =>  '(objectClass=FooBarBaz))',
>
> # A catch-none example d_filter: '(objectClass=FooBarBaz)'
>
> #
>
> # Should we try to use TLS to encrypt connections?
>
> 'tls'   =>  0,
>
> # SSL Version to provide to Net::SSLeay *if* using SSL
>
> 'ssl_version'   =>  3,
>
> # What other args should I pass to Net::LDAP->new($host,@args)?
>
> 'net_ldap_args' => [    version =>  3   ],
>
> 'attr_match_list'   => [    'Name','EmailAddress'],
>
> # The mapping of RT attributes on to LDAP attributes
>
> 'attr_map'  =>  {   'Name' => 'sAMAccountName',
>
>    'EmailAddress' => 'mail',
>
> }
>
>     }
>
>     }
>
> );
>
>
>
> Set($DatabaseType, 'mysql'); # e.g. Pg or mysql
>
> Set($DatabaseUser , 'rtuser');
>
> Set($DatabasePassword , 'password');
>
> Set($DatabaseName , 'rt3'); # Ensure this is set to rt3!
>
> Set($WebPath , "/rt");
>
> Set($WebBaseURL , "http://support.example.org";);
>
> Set(@Plugins,qw(RT::FM));
>
> 1;
>
>
>
>
>
> Syslog
>
> Sep 18 16:03:49 RequstTracker RT: FAILED LOGIN for testuser from 10.50.1.192 
> (/opt/rt3/share/html/autohandler:268)
>
> Sep 18 16:04:17 RequstTracker RT: You've enabled GD, but we couldn't load the 
> module: Can't locate GD.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /opt/rt3/bin/../local/lib 
> /opt/rt3/local/plugins/RT-FM/lib /opt/rt3/bin/../lib /etc/perl 
> /usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.0 /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0 /usr/lib/perl5 
> /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.10 /usr/share/perl/5.10 
> /usr/local/lib/site_perl . /etc/apache2) at /opt/rt3/bin/../lib/RT/Config.pm 
> line 365.
>
> Sep 18 16:04:17 RequstTracker RT: You've enabled GraphViz, but we couldn't 
> load the module: Can't locate GraphViz.pm in @INC (@INC contains: 
> /opt/rt3/bin/../local/lib /opt/rt3/local/plugins/RT-FM/lib 
> /opt/rt3/bin/../lib /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.0 
> /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 
> /usr/lib/perl/5.10 /usr/share/perl/5.10 /usr/local/lib/site_perl . 
> /etc/apache2) at /opt/rt3/bin/../lib/RT/Config.pm line 352.
>
> Sep 18 16:04:17 RequstTracker RT: RT's GnuPG libraries couldn't successfully 
> read your configured GnuPG home directory (/opt/rt3/var/data/gpg). PGP 
> support has been disabled
>
>
>
>
>
> Beryl Snyder
>
>

Re: [rt-users] User Provisioning from AD

2009-08-28 Thread Robert Nesius
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 7:20 AM, Kevin Falcone wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 02:59:03PM -0500, Robert Nesius wrote:
>
> >
> >I've installed RT-Extension-LDAPImport and was reading the README.
> What jumped out at me is
> >that there is both a script to run (presumably to bulk-load
> identities) and a plug-in. I was
> >expecting to see a script, but a plugin was unexpected, which lead me
> to wonder if this module
> >is both a method for importing users from ldap, and an on-the-fly
> authentication and
> >user-creation tool too? If so, that implies I don't need the 3rd party
> ldapauth plug-in I
> >already have installed. (I'd rather use a module from Best Practical
> if I had a choice).
>
> If you look at the script, it is 23 lines long.  The plugin is where
> the import code is stored and organized, the script is just a wrapper.


I saw that and I get that the script is a wrapper.

What I was wondering is why the import code is stored in a plug-in and
loaded as a plug-in, but I think I figured it out.  Basically the import
code is working against the objects and subsystems in RT, and needs those
objects to exist before it's loaded, so you load your import code indirectly
via by simply loading the RT runtime via the RT Module, which inspects
RT_SiteConfig.pm, initializes the environment, and then eventually loads
your plug-in, thus making your code available to your script within the
context of a complete RT runtime environment.

Okay, so I get that now.

Once I configured the script the first thing I wanted to do was "test the
config".  I was extremely surprised to see there is no "look before you
leap" flag.  Rather, just a comment advising "back up your database first",
which has this sense of playing russian roulette with a revolver with no
empty cylinders.  Having looked at the code I can see some ways to work
around that.  Not cleanly, since "fetch users" and "load users" are sitting
inside one api call but it shouldn't be hard to change that.

-Rob




> You still need RT-Authen-ExternalAuth or apache LDAP authentication if
> you want to validate passwords against an external source
>
> -kevin
>
> >
> >Just trying to make sure I'm understanding things correctly.
> >
> >Thanks much!
> >
> >-Rob
> >
> >On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Robert Nesius <[1]nes...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >  On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Kevin Falcone <[2]
> falc...@bestpractical.com> wrote:
> >
> >Have you looked at RT-Extension-LDAPImport ?
> >-kevin
> >
> >  I had not found my way to it yet! Now that I read the cpan page,
> that looks very much like
> >  what I'm looking for.
> >
> >  Thanks so much, Kevin. I'll play with this and see how it goes!
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Re: [rt-users] Detecting differences between installs

2009-08-25 Thread Robert Nesius
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 9:25 PM, Rich West  wrote:

>
> That works as expected in the development environment.  However, in the
> production environment, it gives up after the first command.
> Interestingly, when viewing the email within the RT web UI, every line
> (when submitted via the web form) has an extra carriage return in it,
> causing a blank line between each line.  When I select to download the
> message (with headers), the message looks correct.  I'm not convinced
> that this symptom isn't a red herring, but I thought it was worth
> mentioning.


Extra carriage returns is a bit of a red flag.

By chance, in your production environment are the emails being sourced from
a windows client of some sort such that you get ^M^N end-of-line markers
instead of ^N end-of-line markers (windows vs. unix)...

If you washed the emails through dos2unix before feeding them to the mail
command handlers, I suspect things would work normally again.

Well.. maybe that's grasping at straws a little, but reading your email
that's the first thing that came to mind for me.

-Rob
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Re: [rt-users] User Provisioning from AD

2009-08-18 Thread Robert Nesius
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Kevin Falcone
wrote:

>
> Have you looked at RT-Extension-LDAPImport ?
>
> -kevin
>

I had not found my way to it yet!  Now that I read the cpan page, that looks
very much like what I'm looking for.

Thanks so much, Kevin.  I'll play with this and see how it goes!

-Rob
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Re: [rt-users] User Provisioning from AD

2009-08-18 Thread Robert Nesius
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Kevin Falcone
wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 04:16:40PM -0500, Robert Nesius wrote:
> >Slight correction:
> >
> >On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Robert Nesius <[1]nes...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >  I'm looking at deploying RT (running over apache2 on GNU/Linux) into
> an environment that is
> >  windows-centric, and to ease administrative overhead I'd like to use
> AD for authentication
> >  and the provisioning of identities. I've successfully accomplished
> AD-Authentication a few
> >  different ways, but what I'm running into is that the users RT
> creates based on AD
> >  credentials
> >
> >  are not privileged within AD.
> >
> >are not privileged within RT.
>
> Set($AutoCreate, {Privileged => 1});
> in your config


*blink*  Thanks!I missed that one. :)

Pre-loading users is something I'd still like to do so I can configure
groups/queues before rolling out the service.  I'll figure something out.

-Rob


>
> -kevin
>
> >
> >  To ease service configuration (Group Creation/Rights Delegation) I'd
> like to bulk-load
> >  identities into RT from AD before rolling out the service, and have
> a nightly cron catch any
> >  new additions/changes (names changing due to state-changes in
> marital status, etc..). I'm
> >  guessing this is a solved problem, but have not stumbled my away
> across a tool despite
> >  numerous google searches.
> >
> >  Anyone out there who can point me in the right direction or share
> their learnings?
> >
> >  Thanks very much!
> >  -Rob
> >
> > References
> >
> >Visible links
> >1. mailto:nes...@gmail.com
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Re: [rt-users] User Provisioning from AD

2009-08-17 Thread Robert Nesius
Slight correction:

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Robert Nesius  wrote:

>
> I'm looking at deploying RT (running over apache2 on GNU/Linux) into an
> environment that is windows-centric, and to ease administrative overhead I'd
> like to use AD for authentication and the provisioning of identities.  I've
> successfully accomplished AD-Authentication a few different ways, but what
> I'm running into is that the users RT creates based on AD credentials

are not privileged within AD.


are not privileged within *RT.*





To ease service configuration (Group Creation/Rights Delegation) I'd like to
> bulk-load identities into RT from AD before rolling out the service, and
> have a nightly cron catch any new additions/changes (names changing due to
> state-changes in marital status, etc..).  I'm guessing this is a solved
> problem, but have not stumbled my away across a tool despite numerous google
> searches.
>
> Anyone out there who can point me in the right direction or share their
> learnings?
>
> Thanks very much!
> -Rob
>
>
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[rt-users] User Provisioning from AD

2009-08-17 Thread Robert Nesius
I'm looking at deploying RT (running over apache2 on GNU/Linux) into an
environment that is windows-centric, and to ease administrative overhead I'd
like to use AD for authentication and the provisioning of identities.  I've
successfully accomplished AD-Authentication a few different ways, but what
I'm running into is that the users RT creates based on AD credentials are
not privileged within AD.  To ease service configuration (Group
Creation/Rights Delegation) I'd like to bulk-load identities into RT from AD
before rolling out the service, and have a nightly cron catch any new
additions/changes (names changing due to state-changes in marital status,
etc..).  I'm guessing this is a solved problem, but have not stumbled my
away across a tool despite numerous google searches.

Anyone out there who can point me in the right direction or share their
learnings?

Thanks very much!
-Rob
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Re: [rt-users] Migrating from Postgres to MySQL

2009-07-29 Thread Robert Nesius
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Kenneth Marshall  wrote:

> Kage,
>
> The main advantage is gained by avoiding I/O through the virtual
> disk. The layout of the virtual disk tends to turn most I/O into
> random I/O, even I/O that starts as sequential. The factor of
> 10 performance difference between random/sequential I/O causes
> the majority of the performance problem. I have not had personal
> experience with using an NFS mount point to run a database so I
> cannot really comment on that. Good luck with your evaluation.
>

You're trading head-seeking latencies for network latencies, and those are
almost certainly higher.  Hosting your database server binaries and such
forth in NFS is possible, though again, not optimal both from a performance
and risk standpoint (NFS server drops, your DB binaries vanish, your DB
server drops even though the machine hosting it was fine).

I think hosting databases in NFS can cause serious problems - I seem to
remember older versions of mysql wouldn't support that.  I don't know if
newer ones do...but I do know in the *very large* IT environment I worked
in, all database servers hosted the DBs on their local disks or in
filesystems hosted on disks (SANS?) attached via fibre-channel.

Could solid-state drives side-step the random-access issue with
virtualization, or at least make it suck less? Based on how many people I
know who have said "Wow, my SSD died.  I thought those were supposed to be
more reliable?" ... I wouldn't bet my service uptime on it. ;)

-Rob
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Re: [rt-users] RT for Project Management

2009-07-23 Thread Robert Nesius
Just a word of warning - I have seen "ITIL Gone Wrong", and I'm not sure
I've seen a bigger train wreck in my life than the implementation of ITIL at
my former employer.  ITIL isn't bad.  Nor is it a silver bullet.  It's a
process model for running an IT organization within a business.

Regards.

-Rob


On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 3:36 PM, William Graboyes <
william.grabo...@theportalgrp.com> wrote:

> Bryan,
>
> I've one acronym for you ITIL.  It works for supporting huge dotcoms, all
> the way to small projects.  Typically you want queues that pertain to the
> type of project that is being managed, you can spawn child tickets from
> parent tickets for use if sending to different groups.  etc...  Google
> ITIL... you may thank me for it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bill Graboyes
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Bryan Ellinger  wrote:
>
>> All,
>>
>> I would like to get started using RT for PM of a hardware, software
>> integration project. There has been talk on this list about
>> using RT for project management. However, I have not read much about how
>> others are doing it.
>> For instance, what is the most sensible way to set up queues? It seems
>> like it might be good to give each group, e.g. SW
>> engineering, HW engineering, Applications Engineering etc., their own
>> queue. But how would one determine which tickets belong to
>> which of many possible projects? Should each project have it's own queue
>> instead?
>> Anyone care to share how they apply RT to their general PM processes? It
>> would be a big help to me.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Bryan
>>
>> Bryan D. Ellinger 
>> Applications Engineer
>> Applied Dynamics International
>> 3800 Stone School Road
>> Ann Arbor, MI 48108
>> 734.973.1300 ext. 289
>> 734.668.0012 Fax
>> http://www.adi.com, mailto:supp...@adi.com
>>
>>
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Re: [rt-users] Problem in installing RT::Authen::ExternalAuth

2009-07-08 Thread Robert Nesius
Before installing the module w/ CPAN.

# Note - /opt/rt3/lib is the default path - if you used a different
arg to --prefix during configure/install, use that as well.
export PERL5LIB=/opt/rt3/lib

Then run your cpan install.   Paths in PERL5LIB are added (prepended?)
to @INC, allowing the RT modules to be found during run-time, thus
allowing CPAN to detect that the dependency for the module you're
installing is satisfied.

-Rob


On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 3:29 AM, Ratish
Ravindran wrote:
> Hi All,
>
>
>
> I tried to install RT::Authen::ExternalAuth module ( version 0.08) for RT
> 3.8.4, but during installation its giving an error as :
>
>
>
> 
>
> Cannot determine perl version info from lib/RT/Authen/ExternalAuth.pm
>
> Checking if your kit is complete...
>
> Looks good
>
> Warning: prerequisite RT 0 not found.
>
> Writing Makefile for RT::Authen::ExternalAuth
>
>   Unsatisfied dependencies detected during  
>
>  ZORDRAK/RT-Authen-ExternalAuth-0.08.tar.gz 
>
>     RT [requires]
>
> Shall I follow them and prepend them to the queue
>
> of modules we are processing right now? [yes] y
>
> Running make test
>
>   Delayed until after prerequisites
>
> Running make install
>
>   Delayed until after prerequisites
>
> Running install for module 'RT'
>
>
>
>   The module RT isn't available on CPAN.
>
>
>
>   Either the module has not yet been uploaded to CPAN, or it is
>
>   temporary unavailable. Please contact the author to find out
>
>   more about the status. Try 'i RT'.
>
> Running make for Z/ZO/ZORDRAK/RT-Authen-ExternalAuth-0.08.tar.gz
>
>   Has already been unwrapped into directory
> /root/.cpan/build/RT-Authen-ExternalAuth-0.08-s0b8RW
>
>
>
>   CPAN.pm: Going to build Z/ZO/ZORDRAK/RT-Authen-ExternalAuth-0.08.tar.gz
>
>
>
> cp lib/RT/Authen/ExternalAuth.pm blib/lib/RT/Authen/ExternalAuth.pm
>
> cp lib/RT/Authen/ExternalAuth/LDAP.pm
> blib/lib/RT/Authen/ExternalAuth/LDAP.pm
>
> cp lib/RT/User_Vendor.pm blib/lib/RT/User_Vendor.pm
>
> cp lib/RT/Authen/ExternalAuth/DBI/Cookie.pm
> blib/lib/RT/Authen/ExternalAuth/DBI/Cookie.pm
>
> cp lib/RT/Authen/ExternalAuth/DBI.pm blib/lib/RT/Authen/ExternalAuth/DBI.pm
>
> Manifying blib/man3/RT::Authen::ExternalAuth.3pm
>
> Manifying blib/man3/RT::User_Vendor.3pm
>
>   ZORDRAK/RT-Authen-ExternalAuth-0.08.tar.gz
>
>   /usr/bin/make -- OK
>
> Running make test
>
> No tests defined for RT::Authen::ExternalAuth extension.
>
>   ZORDRAK/RT-Authen-ExternalAuth-0.08.tar.gz
>
> Tests succeeded but one dependency not OK (RT)
>
>   ZORDRAK/RT-Authen-ExternalAuth-0.08.tar.gz
>
>   [dependencies] -- NA
>
> Running make install
>
>   make test had returned bad status, won't install without force
>
> 
>
>
>
> I searched for RT modules but didn’t find.
>
>
>
> Please help me to get out of this problem.
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> Ratish
>
>
>
>
>
>
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