Changes between Version 19 and Version 20 of CookBook/AccountManagerPluginConfiguration


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Timestamp:
Oct 9, 2013, 10:44:58 AM (10 years ago)
Author:
izzy
Comment:

clarified setting for auth_cookie_path (original description was mistakable)

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  • CookBook/AccountManagerPluginConfiguration

    v19 v20  
    187187In a setup with multiple Trac environments per domain/host chances are that users want to work with several projects simultaneously. 40 and more environments served by a single Trac install have been reported from private networks as well as seen on the web.
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    189 To address the demand for authentication information sharing between some/all of the Trac environments in such a setup a login synchronization process has been introduced for acct_mgr-0.4. It relies on a non-default value for the path of `trac_auth` and `trac_auth_session` cookies. Otherwise the cookie wouldn't be recognized as related to different Trac environments by the web browser client:
     189To address the demand for authentication information sharing between some/all of the Trac environments in such a setup a login synchronization process has been introduced for acct_mgr-0.4. It relies on a non-default value for the path of `trac_auth` and `trac_auth_session` cookies. Otherwise the cookie wouldn't be recognized as related to different Trac environments by the web browser client.
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     191In order to achieve this, set `auth_cookie_path` in the `[trac]` section of your `trac.ini` file to the '''URL''' path of your installations `TRAC_PARENT_DIR`. Assumed your projects use the URL `http://www.example.com/trac/<project_name>`, this should look like:
    190192{{{
    191193#!cfg
    192194[trac]
    193 auth_cookie_path = /var/www/trac
    194 }}}
     195auth_cookie_path = /trac
     196}}}
     197If you made this change to an existing setup, and encounter login problems afterwards, check the cookies stored in your browser. If it holds any `trac_auth` cookies with a path other than the one defined by `auth_cookie_path`, you might have to remove those as they might conflict.
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    195199Hint: Even if this setting has been introduced in Trac 0.12, it could be set in `trac.ini` for older Trac versions, and !AcctMgr will use it, specifically providing a cookie path fix-up for `trac_auth` cookies generated by Trac 0.11 and above.
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