NAME
RT::Extension::LDAPImport - Import Users from an LDAP store
SYNOPSIS
use RT::Extension::LDAPImport;METHODS
connect_ldap
Relies on the config variables $RT::LDAPHost, $RT::LDAPUser and $RT::LDAPPassword being set in your RT Config files.
Set(LDAPHost,'my.ldap.host')
Set(LDAPUSER,'me');
Set(LDAPPassword,'mypass');LDAPUser and LDAPPassword can be blank, which will cause an anonymous bind.
LDAPHost can be a hostname or an ldap:// ldaps:// uri
run_search
Executes a search using the RT::LDAPFilter and RT::LDAPBase options.
LDAPBase is the DN to look under LDAPFilter is how you want to restrict the users coming back
Will connect to LDAP server using connect_ldap
import_users
Takes the results of the search from run_search and maps attributes from LDAP into RT::User attributes using $RT::LDAPMapping. Creates RT users if they don't already exist.
create_rt_user
Takes a hashref of args to pass to RT::User::Create Will try loading the user and will only create a new user if it can't find an existing user with the Name or EmailAddress arg passed in.
disconnect_ldap
Disconnects from the LDAP server
Takes no arguments, returns nothing
screendebug
We always log to the RT log file with level debug
This duplicates the messages to the screen
BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
No bugs have been reported.
Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-rt-extension-ldapimport@rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org.
AUTHOR
Kevin Falcone <falcone@bestpractical.com>
LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2007, Best Practical Solutions, LLC. All rights reserved.
This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See perlartistic.
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