?  I've got LDAP authentication going against my Active Directory for both
Agents and Customers.  Took a bit of work, since the mods I was making to
the CONFIG.PM file for some reason didn't "take" until I mirrored them in
the web GUI, but every test user I've thrown at it across multiple OUs has
worked, inclusive of populating basic customer information from AD (Full
Name, Phone, E-Mail).


On 3/13/07 17:27, "Maurice James Ny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> It look like this feature is only good for creating tickets in the agent
> interface, everything else about it is useless. I eventually gave up on the
> premise of just using LDAP to log in. I only use LDAP to search for users
> that haven't had tickets opened already. I just manually add every new
> customer into the database manually using phpMyAdmin, or webmin.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of mike
> conigliaro
> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 2:10 PM
> To: User questions and discussions about OTRS.org
> Subject: Re: [otrs] customer ldap auth (help with basic concepts)
> 
> ok, so i finally got a chance to work on this again, and it turns out that i
> had 
> set up the customer backend properly, but i missed the part about user
> authentification:
> 
> http://doc.otrs.org/2.1/en/html/x1553.html#customer-auth-backends
> 
> now customer users are able to log in, and i dont have to add them to the
> customer_user table.  i hope this helps someone.
> 
> Mike Conigliaro
> ProActive Technologies
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 203.239.0440 ext:317
> www.getproactivenow.com
> 
> 
> mike conigliaro wrote:
>> here is how it works as i understand it:
>> 
>> 1.) customer tries to log in
>> 2.) otrs authenticates user via ldap
>> 3.) if authentication is successful, otrs tries to look up the user's
>> attributes in the customer_user table.  if the attributes are found, the
>> login is successful.  if no data exists for the user in customer_user,
>> the login ultimately fails, and you get an error like this in the log:
>> 
>> <snip>
>> [Notice][Kernel::System::CustomerAuth::DB::Auth] CustomerUser: No auth
>> record in 'customer_user' for 'xxx'  (REMOTE_ADDR: x.x.x.x)
>> </snip>
>> 
>> so it appears that you need to create the user twice.  once in ldap, and
>> once in otrs.  this kinda defeats the purpose of ldap, but ok, fine.
>> 
>> now what happens if the users already exist in ldap, and you want to
>> give them access to the customer interface?  i log into the admin
>> section to add the otrs account, but this is the message i get:
>> 
>> <snip>
>> ERROR: OTRS-CGI-10 Perl: 5.8.4 OS: linux Time: Wed Jan 31 14:27:25 2007
>> Message: User already exists 'xxx'!
>> </snip>
>> 
>> ok, so i guess theres no way to add this user since they already exist
>> in ldap.  does this mean i always have to add the otrs account first?
>> 
>> there are so many steps and caveats involved here that i cant imagine im
>> doing this right.  ldap is supposed to make my life easier, not harder.
>> so how does everyone else do customer ldap authentication in otrs?
>> 
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