trac and authentication

[Stuart Cracraft]

After reading the documentation, I have been unable to get trac to authenticate in

any reasonable way, i.e. be able to login to it.

 

When I go to the ...../trac/login screen by pressing the login button, it gives:

 

  Trac Error

  Authentication information not available. Please refer to the installation documentation.

 

But nothing there helps, as far as I can say.

 

So, what's the trick tracers?

 

--Stuart

 

[Steffen Hoffmann]

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You should read-up on the authoritative wiki docs[1] to get an initial
setup.

There are a few more options using one of the available Trac plugins
that aim at replacing or enhancing different aspects of Trac
authentication [2].

Probably the most comprehensive guide these days is to be found within
the release-candidate for AccountManagerPlugin v5.0 [3] (current trunk).
If enabled in full, i.e. by a wildcard entry to your trac.ini
[components] section like "acct_mgr.* = enabled", the first time you
click /login you're forwarded to a multi-page wizard assisting and
explaining a good bit of various aspects of Trac authentication
including some default setting and preliminary configuration checking.
You may even try various settings on the fly finally save only if
satisfied. Otherwise a simple web-server restart will flush all
configurations changes done so far. Once done successfully you'll have
an admin user to go on with, i.e. add more users and adjust permissions.

Steffen Hoffmann


[1] http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracInstall#ConfiguringAuthentication
[2] http://trac-hacks.org/tags/authentication
[3]
http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/AccountManagerPlugin#ReleaseStatusDownloadsandSource
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[Stuart Cracraft]

Great.

 

Worked:

 

/home/trac/trac.ini:

[account-manager]

htpasswd_hash_type = md5

htpasswd_file = /home/trac/trac.htpasswd

password_store = HtPasswdStore

 

[components]

acct_mgr.* = enabled

 

Cool.

 

Stuart