phpBB Authentication with AccountManagerPlugin

Notice: This plugin is unmaintained and available for adoption.

Description

This plugin allows you to use a phpBB3 database as the authentication store for Trac.

This plugin is sponsored by ​Cobra.

Bugs/Feature Requests

Existing bugs and feature requests for PhpBbAuthPlugin are here.

If you have any issues, create a new ticket.

defect	3 / 5
enhancement	1 / 4

Download and Source

Download the zipped source from [download:phpbbauthplugin here], check out using Subversion, or browse the source​ with Trac.

Installation

• First make sure you have AccountManagerPlugin installed
• Grab the source
• Unpack the source
• Change into the source directory that contains the setup.py file
• Build an egg:

  python setup.py bdist_egg
  

• Copy the egg, found in dist/ to the plugins directory of the desired trac environment

Configuration

Enable the auth store by adding the following to your trac.ini file:

[components]
phpbbauth.main.PhpBBAuthStore = enabled

Set the phpBB database location:

[account-manager]
phpbb_database = mysql://user:pass@host/database
password_store = PhpBBAuthStore

To use this, it requires mysql-python which can be installed with pip from a command line:

pip install mysql-python

Recent Changes

16564 by rjollos on 2017-05-01 01:39:50

Fix indentation

4041 by pacopablo on 2008-07-20 06:08:46

• Fixes #3355 - Indeed the default prefix should have been lowercase. This is fixed in the applied patch. Thanks for the report and the suggestion.

3560 by pacopablo on 2008-04-26 16:19:06

Fixed session population on login.

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Author/Contributors

Author: pacopablo
Maintainer: none
Contributors: