Changes between Version 1 and Version 2 of Trac Fine Grained Permissions

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Jul 25, 2010, 3:04:54 PM (14 years ago)

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trac

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Trac Fine Grained Permissions

@@ -5 +5 @@
 Since 0.11, there's a general mechanism in place that allows custom permission policy plugins to grant or deny any action on any kind of Trac resources, even at the level of specific versions of such resources.
 
+Note that for Trac 0.12, `authz_policy` has been integrated in trunk branch as `tracopt.perm.authz_policy.*`
+
 == Permission Policies ==
 
@@ -10 +12 @@
 
 An example policy based on an Authz-style system has been added. See
-[source:trunk/sample-plugins/permissions/authz_policy.py] for details. (See also [source:trunk/sample-plugins/permissions] for more samples.)
+[trac:source:branches/0.11-stable/sample-plugins/permissions/authz_policy.py authz_policy.py] for details (current version requires >= Python 2.4). (See also [trac:source:branches/0.11-stable/sample-plugins/permissions sample-plugins/permissions] for more samples.)
 
  - Install [http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/configobj.html ConfigObj] (required).
  - Copy authz_policy.py into your plugins directory.
- - Put a [http://swapoff.org/files/authzpolicy.conf authzpolicy.conf] file somewhere (preferably on a secured location on the server, not readable for others than the webuser.
+ - Put a [http://swapoff.org/files/authzpolicy.conf authzpolicy.conf] file somewhere, preferably on a secured location on the server, not readable for others than the webuser. If the  file contains non-ASCII characters, the UTF-8 encoding should be used.
  - Update your `trac.ini`:
+   1. modify the [TracIni#trac-section permission_policies] entry in the `[trac]` section
 {{{
 [trac]
 ...
 permission_policies = AuthzPolicy, DefaultPermissionPolicy, LegacyAttachmentPolicy
-
+}}}
+   2. add a new `[authz_policy]` section
+{{{
 [authz_policy]
 authz_file = /some/trac/env/conf/authzpolicy.conf
-
+}}}
+   3. enable the single file plugin
+{{{
 [components]
 ...
-authz_policy = enabled
+authz_policy.* = enabled
 }}}
 
@@ -61 +68 @@
 === mod_authz_svn-like permission policy ===
 
-At the time of this writing, the old fine grained permissions system from Trac 0.10 and before used for restricting access to the repository has not yet been converted to a permission policy component, but from the user point of view, this makes little if no differences.
+At the time of this writing, the old fine grained permissions system from Trac 0.10 and before used for restricting access to the repository has not yet been converted to a permission policy component, but from the user point of view, this makes little if no difference.
 
 That kind of fine-grained permission control needs a definition file, which is the one used by Subversion's mod_authz_svn. 
-More information about this file format and about its usage in Subversion is available in the [http://svnbook.red-bean.com/svnbook/book.html#svn-ch-6-sect-4.4.2 Subversion Book (Per-Directory Access Control)].
+More information about this file format and about its usage in Subversion is available in the  [http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.serverconfig.pathbasedauthz.html Path-Based Authorization] section in the Server Configuration chapter of the svn book.
 
 Example:
@@ -92 +99 @@
 }}}
 
-if you want to support the use of the `[`''modulename''`:/`''some''`/`''path''`]` syntax within the `authz_file`, add 
+If you want to support the use of the `[`''modulename''`:/`''some''`/`''path''`]` syntax within the `authz_file`, add 
 
 {{{
@@ -98 +105 @@
 }}}
 
-where ''modulename'' refers to the same repository indicated by the `repository_dir` entry in the `[trac]` section.
+where ''modulename'' refers to the same repository indicated by the `repository_dir` entry in the `[trac]` section. As an example, if the `repository_dir` entry in the `[trac]` section is {{{/srv/active/svn/blahblah}}}, that would yield the following:
+
+{{{ 
+[trac]
+authz_file = /path/to/svnaccessfile
+authz_module_name = blahblah
+...
+repository_dir = /srv/active/svn/blahblah 
+}}}
+
+where the svn access file, {{{/path/to/svnaccessfile}}}, contains entries such as {{{[blahblah:/some/path]}}}.
 
 '''Note:''' Usernames inside the Authz file __must__ be the same as those used inside trac. 
@@ -117 +134 @@
 For information about how to restrict access to entire projects in a multiple project environment see [trac:wiki:TracMultipleProjectsSVNAccess]
 
+== Getting TracFineGrainedPermissions to work ==
+
+Don't forget to restart Trac engine to apply new configuration if you are running tracd standalone server.
+
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-See also: TracPermissions
+See also: TracPermissions,
+[http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/FineGrainedPageAuthzEditorPlugin TracHacks:FineGrainedPageAuthzEditorPlugin] for a simple editor plugin.