On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 1:09 PM, Robert <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wednesday, March 2, 2016 at 10:27:44 AM UTC-8, RjOllos wrote: >> >> >> >> On Wednesday, March 2, 2016 at 9:43:30 AM UTC-8, Robert wrote: >>> >>> I searched for this topic but couldn't find the answer I was looking >>> for. If there is an existing topic that addresses my question I would be >>> fine with a pointer to that topic. What I would like to do is drop use of >>> the username in lieu of the email address. It seems like the username is >>> so pervasive throughout Trac that this would be a massive undertaking. Is >>> there a simple way of doing this that I am missing? >>> >> >> Are you concerned with renaming existing usernames to replace the userid >> with an email address? AccountManagerPlugin 0.5dev has a component for >> account renaming which might be useful to you. >> > > We're starting from scratch soon, i.e., we have no existing usernames or > users for that matter. My company has a corporation wide authentication > system that I would like to use with Trac. One option in that system is to > use employee email addresses so it would be convenient to use existing > email addresses (effectively corporate usernames) instead of using Trac > specific usernames. From your response it sounds like I can at least take > a shot at this approach and see where it gets me. If it doesn't get me > where I want to be I can always fallback to the Trac usernames since my > preferred direction is not a hard requirement. Thanks. >
I think that will work fine. I assume your corporate wide authentication system is something like LDAP and authentication will be handled by the web server. Feel free to follow-up if you have any issues. - Ryan -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/trac-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
