On Feb 16, 2009, at 10:59 AM, Ed - 0x1b, Inc. wrote:
> > 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. The actual problem is that you assume the only usable option is LDAP, when it is in fact not. It is very common to use htpasswd or htdigest auth for both Trac and SVN, and if you point them at the same the file then registrations work across both. This is why making assumptions is bad :-) --Noah --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Trac Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/trac-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
