On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 3:33 AM, Cooke, Mark <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I am currently trying to "properly" implement Trac which I have been
> championing using tracd from my desktop.  I now have a windoze server
> and want to authenticate against Active Directory.  My current plan is
> to use apache and mod_authnz_ldap

+1

> What I am not sure about is: can I remove the need to re-authenticate
> into Trac after passing the apache LDAP authentication gauntlet.
>  ~ can Trac pick up the user credentials from apache?

You shouldn't need to re-authenticate. When you login (Basic | Digest
auth isn'it ?). When users type the passw in the auth dialog box
Apache (i.e. mod_authnz_ldap ) provides the user

>  ~ even better, can Trac get the user's email address from AD?
>

Using the right plugin, yes.

> I have had a look at Trac-hacks and e.g. LdapPlugin but I don't want to
> use LDAP groups for authorisation as my company IT structure would make
> that way too much work, especially for the handful of active users that
> would need more than default rights.
>

You can disable the component implementing LDAP groups, and that's it !

> I would have thought this a reasonably common use case so can anyone
> point me at the right documentation for setting this up properly?
>

I mentioned one some time ago, and that question is very frequent in
this list so I think something can be found provided that archive is
working ok

;o)

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