On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 1:12 AM, Noah Kantrowitz <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Feb 5, 2009, at 4:36 AM, nik gaffney wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to setup trac to be able to register new users and grant
>> rw
>> access to an svn repo. It looks like using LDAP would be the most
>> obvious as both trac and svn can authenticate against a local server.
>> With my currentl setup trac can view the svn repo and authenticate
>> users
>> with LDAPStore. However, the 'register' link doesn't appear when
>> password_store is LDAPStore but works ok when using SessionStore.
>>
>> As it appears there are several plugins to use LDAP authentication
>> with
>> the Acount Manager plugin, I have tried 'TracLDAPAuth' and
>> 'LdapAuthStore' and couldn't get either to work with the registration
>> interface.
>>
>> Has anyone managed to get this kind of setup to work, or should i be
>> trying a differnt approach?
>
> The LDAP auth plugin doesn't support modification, nor do I plan to
> add that. The general use case for LDAP is hooking in to an existing,
> large company infrastructure. In this case you would already have a
> procedure and tools for adding/modifying accounts. I don't think it
> makes sense to try to build these tools into Trac when the whole point
> is to allow you to use your existing ones.
>
> --Noah
>

-1
Noah, please consider other use cases,
I'm trying to create a system that can do what the OP requested
without the overhead you're assuming because, in my case, the
participants span several organizations with incompatible
infrastructures. The result is that I would very much like to grant
SVN access based on those that create Trac ID creds. LDAP Auth is
looking to be the best(only?) bridge between the two.

Alternatives - we currently are adding unneeded layers such as forcing
users to register via jabber to populate the LDAP - sorta busts up the
browser centricness of the experience but then it adds some too.
I understand that in most cases Trac is just a consumer of
credentials, but there are cases where Trac is all there is to the
institutional layer.

--Ed

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