FYI: my problem had nothing to do with Apache or Trac -- it was all
Active Directory permissions.  My company has our AD server locked
down so that any action, even a read-only search, requires
authentication.  Making the Apache service run as an authenticated
user solved the "problem".


On Aug 7, 3:44 pm, Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yeah, I discovered this too -- and while it sounds like the answer to
> my problem, it hasn't been implemented yet :/  Is there no way to hack
> in what I'm trying to do now?
>
> On Aug 7, 3:35 pm, "Emmanuel Blot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > There is a long lasting ticket to implement a IUserDirectory
> > interface, but it has been forgotten. Look for IUserDirectory on
> > trac.edgewall.org (#2456)
>
> > On 8/7/07, Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > Situation: I am logging users into Trac with SSPI authentication in
> > > Apache.  Once users are logged in, I don't want them to have to enter
> > > their email address on the "Preferences" page so that notification
> > > emails will work -- we have an AD server setup, so when Trac is going
> > > through it's email notification logic, I want it to:
> > > - see if the owner/subscribers have entered an email address, per the
> > > existing "preferences" mechanism; if they have, use that
> > > - if they haven't entered an email address this way, then I'd like it
> > > to go query the AD server for a user matching their username -- if one
> > > matches, use that email instead
>
> > > I've got a Python script that works like a champ, built on Tim
> > > Golden's awesome active_directory package (http://
> > > tgolden.sc.sabren.com/python/active_directory.html) -- when run
> > > standalone, it works flawlessly, exactly as I want it to.  However,
> > > and this is the rub, when I hack the same simple code into the
> > > appropriate place in the Trac codebase (e.g., /trac/notification.py:
> > > 286 or so), it fails to match the username up with a user.
>
> > > The only thing I can think of is that when I run the script
> > > standalone, I run it as my logged-in user account -- when Trac runs
> > > the same code, it is running it via it's parent process' (Apache)
> > > creds (as "System" in this case).
>
> > > Any thoughts?  Tips?  And if you have an entirely different but better
> > > way to accomplish what I'm trying to accomplish, please smack me and
> > > say so :D
>
> > > Thanks in advance...
>
> > > P.S. -- yes, I've seen the thread "Drop down list for LDAP users and
> > > email" (http://groups.google.com/group/trac-users/browse_thread/thread/
> > > a80be94fd53c9bbe/eab6797d74becd62?lnk=gst&q=ldap
> > > +email&rnum=1#eab6797d74becd62)
>
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