Using SVN AUTHZ groups to map to group permissions in Trac

[leighmcc@…]

I have an authz file that I use with Apache/SVN that has a definition of some groups.

e.g. G_developers, G_admin, etc

I have the same named groups in Trac created.

I want Trac to automatically consider the usernames in the AUTHZ file to have the same permissions as the groups that match.

How do I do this?

[eblot]

As detailled in the big red box in the New Ticket page, please ask for installation questions over the MailingList or on #IRC

[mgood]

This is not possible a this time. I'll work on making this available in Trac 0.11 and it should be possible to make a plugin for this with 0.10.

[mgood]

I've uploaded a simple plugin for 0.10 to do this  th:AuthzGroupsPlugin

This problem will probably be fixed in a more general way with the security changes in development for 0.11 by athomas.

[anonymous]

This would be a great feature. Sady, it hasn't be integrated into trac 0.11 yet. I hope this feature is coming soon.

[cboos]

Group handling is problematic currently and needs to be fixed in 0.13 at worst. Check that this plugin still works.

[sahendrickson@…]

Replying to cboos:

Group handling is problematic currently and needs to be fixed in 0.13 at worst. Check that this plugin still works.

It doesn't seem to be working with Trac 0.12 :(

[sahendrickson@…]

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/Trac-0.12rc1-py2.6.egg/trac/loader.py", line 92, in _load_py_files
    module = imp.load_source(plugin_name, plugin_file)
  File "/var/trac/plugins/authzgroups.py", line 3, in <module>
    from trac.versioncontrol.svn_authz import SubversionAuthorizer, \
ImportError: cannot import name SubversionAuthorizer

[cboos]

If you want to report specific issues with  th:AuthzGroupsPlugin, rather do that on Trac-hacks.

The ticket itself depends on #5648. See also #5246.