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

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.

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 k...@rice.edu 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

[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

Re: [rt-users] User Provisioning from AD

2009-08-18 Thread Robert Nesius
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Kevin Falcone falc...@bestpractical.comwrote: 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

Re: [rt-users] User Provisioning from AD

2009-08-18 Thread Robert Nesius
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Kevin Falcone falc...@bestpractical.comwrote: 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

Re: [rt-users] Detecting differences between installs

2009-08-25 Thread Robert Nesius
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 9:25 PM, Rich West rich.w...@wesmo.com 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

Re: [rt-users] User Provisioning from AD

2009-08-28 Thread Robert Nesius
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 7:20 AM, Kevin Falcone falc...@bestpractical.comwrote: 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

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'    = 

[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

[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

[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:

[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

Re: [rt-users] User Rights

2009-12-02 Thread Robert Nesius
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Jesse Vincent je...@bestpractical.comwrote: 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

Re: [rt-users] User Rights

2009-12-02 Thread Robert Nesius
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Ken Crocker kfcroc...@lbl.gov 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)

[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

[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

[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

[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

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 t...@bestpractical.comwrote: 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!

[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

Re: [rt-users] rt-mailgate

2012-01-10 Thread Robert Nesius
] rt-mailgate On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Robert Nesius nes...@gmail.com 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

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

Re: [rt-users] rt-mailgate

2012-01-24 Thread Robert Nesius
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Allen allen+rtl...@crystalfontz.comwrote: 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

[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

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

2012-11-13 Thread Robert Nesius
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Kevin Falcone falc...@bestpractical.comwrote: 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

[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

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

2013-02-21 Thread Robert Nesius
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 nes...@gmail.com 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

[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

[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