RT-Authen-CookieAuth

This module provides the ability to seamlessly integrate RT with a website that uses browser cookies to keep users authenticated once they have logged in.

This module requires the RT-Authen-ExternalAuth extension, although if you do not wish to install the full extension, you may simply provide a valid ExternalSettings variable containing a database configuration as documented in the RT_SiteConfig.pm distributed with RT-Authen-ExternalAuth.

This module is designed to read the value of a browser cookie and check it against a database table containing stored cookie values and userIDs and a users table matching userIDs to usernames.

If the stored cookie value matches a valid userID, then the username associated with it will be automatically authenticated in RT.

INSTALLATION

To install this module, run the following commands:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make install

Once installed, you should view the file:

$RTHOME/local/etc/CookieAuth/RT_SiteConfig.pm

Then use the example provided to prepare your own custom configuration which should reside in
$RTHOME/etc/RT_SiteConfig.pm

Alternatively, you may alter the provided example directly and then include the extra directives by including the example file's path at the end of your RT_SiteConfig.pm

AUTHOR

        Mike Peachey
        Jennic Ltd.
        zordrak@cpan.org

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

This software is released under version 2 of the GNU General Public License. The license is distributed with this package in the LICENSE file found in the directory root.