I’m setting up a private wiki area in my trac wiki. There’s lots of old info regarding trac permissions, easy to get lost. It seems the most current clean way is to use the AuthzPolicy plugin/module, which is available in the base install. There are some steps to go through to get set up, but it’s pretty straightforward.
Go to the admin plugins page, click Trac arrow to open it, find AuthzPolicy, click arrow to open it for instructions. More instructions are here but may not be as up-to-date. When you’re ready, click the enable checkbox and save changes, then configure it. Here’s what I did:
easy_install configobj
emacs conf/trac.ini
[trac]
permission_policies = AuthzPolicy, DefaultPermissionPolicy, LegacyAttachmentPolicy
[authz_policy]
authz_file = conf/authzpolicy.conf
emacs conf/authzpolicy.conf
[groups]
devs = joe, jane
[wiki:DevPage@*]
@devs = WIKI_VIEW, WIKI_CREATE, WIKI_MODIFY
* =
/etc/init.d/apache2 restartThe base Trac is pretty useless for managing users, so let’s get the plugin that fixes that (yes trac is still pretty much a hack 🙂 )…
easy_install TracAccountManagerNow let’s configure it. Same as before, pop it open in the trac admin page. More instructions are here.
