Permissions template

[ikolev]

This is almost the same as #910. When someone needs to install several trac env's (for several Svn repos), it would be easier to set default permissions in advance. A template file with permissions (like the template wiki pages) would help a lot. Currently one has to modify db_default.py.
Of course, a possible fully web-based installation (or web-based administration) would handle this much better…

[robin-trac@…]

Hi,

I'd like to vote for this enhancement. I too would like to have custom permissions created when the project is created.

One possible way to achieve this would be to set the permissions using a post-install script which reads the permissions from a file.

I have a similar issue with trac.ini, i.e. I always make the same changes to trac.ini after installation.

R.

[Jorge <jorge.vargas@…>]

have you guys take a look at python paste? this will help into setting defaults.

[Noah Kantrowitz (coderanger) <coderanger@…>]

This is doable through the ​TracForge plugin. Specifically look at the central permissions and roles system.

[sid]

And you can always write a simple command line script that uses trac-admin to do this… propose to close as wontfix.

[Matthew Good]

Replying to sid:

And you can always write a simple command line script that uses trac-admin to do this… propose to close as wontfix.

I agree, it's trivial to make a file listing trac-admin commands to set up your new project and pipe it in, and this gives you complete control over anything you can do in trac-admin, not just permissions.

For example save this to "trac-commands.txt":

initenv
permission remove anonymous TICKET_MODIFY
permission add me TRAC_ADMIN
priority rename blocker extreme

Then on the command line:

trac-admin my-new-project < trac-commands.txt

Using "<" to pipe the contents of a file into trac-admin works on both Windows and *nix shells.