Am 01.11.2006 um 14:09 Uhr haben Sie geschrieben:
>
> > If I understand it right, Trac keeps a list of users which is based
on
> > who has logged on and registered himself.
>
> True.
>
> > but I should add a new user (which stands for a whole team and not a
> > person and thus there is no login authentication for that user).
>
> If there is no authentication for that user, then it will be
> considered as the "anonymous" user, i.e. will have the same rights as
> the anonymous user - any user which has access to your Trac service.
>
> I'm not sure to understand what to want to achieve, but without
> authentication, any user that browses your web site will be able to
> 'create' a user entry in the DB. Same if someone in the team
makes a
> typo when typing the "team" user....

Sorry, I was unprecise in my description, I guess ;-)
What I meant is not to switch off authentication...

What I want to do is to create this team user in the user database and
make it owner of all components. But since we have an authentication
mechanism with a smart card in place and the user name is handed on
automatically to the Trac by the web server authentication plugin, I
cannot log in as a different user than my personal one. (Otherwise, of
course, I would just log in as the team user and register an email
address for it.)

However I do have access to the database file, and so I figured it may
be the easiest to just add the team user to the database directly (by
logging into the database and using SQL). However for this I need to be
sure where to add what data (as far as I now it's a user name and an
e-mail address... but maybe more).

> > So my question: is it possible to artificially add a user by
directly
> > adding it to the Trac database?
>
> You don't need to tweak the database: from the main page, create
or
> update a ticket or a wiki page, and replace 'anonymous' with
the real
> name of your "team" user: an entry will be added in the database.

Well, as I explained above I'm not anonymous but logged in as my
personal user via the smart card authentication mechanism. However I
tried to generate a ticket on behalf of the team user as well as
modifying a wiki page with replacing my own user name by the team
user... but the team user still does not seem to be in the user
database... at least the team user does not appear in the "assign to"
list of the "new ticket" dialog as I want it to. And this list is
generated from the user list, isn't it?

Thank you very much for your assistance.

Regards,
Chris



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