Yeah, went through that documentation already. But, to no avail. Does anyone have LdapPlugin operating with groups?
On Thursday, October 31, 2013 5:41:10 AM UTC-7, Matthew Caron wrote: > On 10/30/2013 05:48 PM, Stuart Cracraft wrote: > > a trac_admin, which is desired. > > But, even more desirable is not having to add my name to the neededGroup > > membership > > list at all. I.e. it would know my name is part of the neededGroup list > > in LDAP. > > Is that possible with TRAC? We want to minimize maintenance overhead and > > administration chores. > > I don't know. I mean, LDAP doesn't have any concept of Trac permissions, > so it's reasonable to presume that you would need to define group > permissions for an LDAP group in Trac. The real question, then is if > Trac can get and apply LDAP group memberships. > > So, all that said, I did a google for "Trac LDAP group", and found: > > http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/LdapPlugin > > Which states: > > == > LDAP support with group management has been added as a Trac extension. > This extension enables the use of existing LDAP groups to grant > permissions rather than defining permissions for every single user on > the system. > > The latest release also permits storage of permissions (both users and > groups permissions) in the LDAP directory itself rather than in the SQL > backend. > > The original proposal for LDAP ACL is documented under ticket trac:#535 > on the official web site. > > This plugin uses the same license as Trac. > == > > So, this apparently not only allows you to use LDAP groups in Trac, but > also invalidates my previous assertion that LDAP doesn't know Trac perms > (see the second paragraph) - apparently they've added some Trac > permissions storage scheme. Very clever. > > -- > Matthew Caron, Software Build Engineer > Red Lion Controls | www.redlion.net > +1 (518) 877-5173 x138 office > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Trac Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/trac-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
