[patch] Provide ability to map auth usernames to a different svn account

[Scott MacVicar <scott@…>]

We have a separate authentication system in use with different SVN accounts, we needed to be able to map the authentication system user names to SVN accounts for use in Trac.

Patch is attached as well as a sample file, the only other requirement is adding an entry to the [trac] group of trac.ini:

[trac]
authz_username_map = /www/svn/global_conf/svn_map

[Scott MacVicar <scott@…>]

Patch File

[Scott MacVicar <scott@…>]

Sample lookup map file

[Christian Boos]

Thanks for the patch. I guess this is useful in some setups as you wrote the patch, but usually the svn names are also the same as the user names in Trac. Anyone else would find this useful?

Also, can you comment on:

the only other requirement was adding an entry to the Trac group of trac.ini

as I didn't get it.

[Scott MacVicar <scott@…>]

I think I wrote the last bit late at night, most likely why it doesn't make sense.

Our internal authentication system and RCS have always been seperate, its only in the past week we've decided to merge everything to use Trac. There isn't a plan to change everyone's SVN user name so this is the only real solution.

It may also help if you want only staff members to have read only access but don't want to create a read only account for each one. You could map certain users to the same read only SVN account. Though that suggests that adding wildcard support might be useful so if it doesn't find a match it has a default.

I will point out that I made the user name comparison case sensitive, not sure if this will be a problem for anyone.

[Christian Boos]

Replying to Scott MacVicar <scott@vbulletin.com>:

I think I wrote the last bit late at night, most likely why it doesn't make sense.

He, no problem, actually I think I understood by now, and fixed the description accordingly.