0.8pre and tracd - can't log in.

[davep@…]

I'm running 0.8pre and using tracd as the webserver. We have four projects running on the site, tracd is bound to 127.0.0.1 and we use ssh tunnels to connect to the server remotely (so authentication is no biggie).

We don't seem to have the ability to create and login as users. Clicking "login" from the front page gives me:

Oops…

Trac detected an internal error:

'NoneType' object has no attribute 'do_auth' Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/usr/bin/tracd", line 234, in do_trac_req

self.do_real_trac_req()

File "/usr/bin/tracd", line 244, in do_real_trac_req

self.remote_user = self.env.auth.do_auth(self)

AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'do_auth'

[BM`]

I get that too. I don't think authentication is done yet in tracd, but that is just a guess from some obscure references I found in the changesets.

[anonymous]

It is not implemented in trac and from what I know the idea is that you use something else for authentification.

For example a .htpasswd file. And let Apache do the authenthification.

But see TracInstall. Search for 'htpasswd' in the page.

[daniel]

This is actually not a bug… you have to use the '-a' command argument.

However, the error message needs to be improved (read: even exist :-)

See also: #264.

[Jonas Borgström]

tracd currently only has htdigest support (not htpasswd). Trying to authenticate without proper configuration will result in the following non-userfriendly error message.

Authentication is activated like this:

tracd --auth myproj,/foo/myproj.htdigest,www.yourrealm.com /bar/myproj

Ticket #264 will make sure tracd gets better documentation in the future.