This page documents the 1.4 (latest stable) release. Documentation for other releases can be found here.

Trac Permissions

Trac uses a flexible permission system to control what different users can do in the system.

When a user first uses a system he/she will be able to do certain things. Exactly what he/she can do depend on which privileges you have granted to the special user anonymous. In addition to these privileges different users can be granted additional rights as soon as they login into the system.

Available privileges

• LOG_VIEW
• FILE_VIEW
• CHANGESET_VIEW
• BROWSER_VIEW
• TICKET_VIEW, TICKET_CREATE, TICKET_MODIFY, TICKET_ADMIN
• REPORT_VIEW, REPORT_CREATE, REPORT_MODIFY, REPORT_DELETE, REPORT_ADMIN
• WIKI_VIEW, WIKI_CREATE, WIKI_MODIFY, WIKI_DELETE, WIKI_ADMIN
• TIMELINE_VIEW
• SEARCH_VIEW

The something_ADMIN privileges are just shortcuts that can be used to grant a user all the something privileges in one go.

Granting privileges

Currently the only way to grant privileges to users is by using the trac_admin.py script. The current set of privileges can be listed with the following command:

  $ trac_admin.py /path/to/my.db permission list

This command will let the user bob to delete reports:

  $ trac_admin.py /path/to/my.db permission add bob REPORT_DELETE

Default permissions

Granting privileges to the special user anonymous can be used to control what an anonymous user can do before they have logged in.