Account Manager Plugin

Description

The AccountManager offers several features for managing user accounts:

• allow users to register new accounts
• login via an HTML form instead of using HTTP authentication
• allow existing users to change their passwords or delete their accounts

These features are new in the plugin for Trac 0.10.

• send a new password to users who've forgotten their password
• administration of user accounts

Bugs/Feature Requests

Existing bugs and feature requests for AccountManagerPlugin are here.

If you have any issues, create a ​new ticket.

Install

First make sure you've ​installed setuptools.

Then you can install the plugin using the easy_install application.

Note: Windows users will need to ​add easy_install to their PATH.

For Trac 0.9:

easy_install http://trac-hacks.org/svn/accountmanagerplugin/0.9

For Trac 0.10:

Install the ​trac:WebAdmin plugin.

Then install this plugin:

easy_install http://trac-hacks.org/svn/accountmanagerplugin/trunk

Source

Browse the source​

Subversion Checkout:

svn co http://trac-hacks.org/svn/accountmanagerplugin/0.9

Components

In order to use the features of the AccountManager you will need to enable some or all of its components.

The easiest way to enable the components is via the ​trac:WebAdmin plugin. Users logged in with the TRAC_ADMIN permission will be able to manage the enabled components:

Components can also be enabled or disabled in the ​trac.ini file under the [components] section. For example to enable the login form and disable user registration:

[components]
acct_mgr.web_ui.LoginModule = enabled
acct_mgr.web_ui.RegistrationModule = disabled

Example

The AccountManagerPlugin settings are configured in the ​trac.ini file.

The plugin includes support for the two password file formats used by Apache.

Note: the webserver needs permission to write to both the password file and the directory where it's located.

For htpasswd:

[account-manager]
password_format = htpasswd
password_file = /var/trac/trac.htpasswd

For htdigest:

[account-manager]
password_format = htdigest
password_file = /var/trac/trac.htdigest
htdigest_realm = TracRealm

Form-based Login

The plugin supports allowing users to login via a form instead of HTTP authentication. You will need to turn off the default Trac login handler and enable the handler from the AccountManagerPlugin in your trac.ini file:

[components]
trac.web.auth.LoginModule = disabled
acct_mgr.web_ui.LoginModule = enabled

Author/Contributors

Author: mgood
Contributors:

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