[Trac] Login Screen

[Kevin T. Broderick]

On 6 Jun 2005, at 3:21 AM, Shib SS wrote:

> When you go to trac and you are not logged
> in - it gives a page that says that you need WIKI_VIEW
> permission. You then need to know that you have to
> click "Login" to log in.
>
> Can we make it such that instead of putting the
> confusing page, it just displays the Login dialog.


Yup, just change your Apache config so that require valid-user is set  
on the entire trac directory instead of just the login page, e.g.  
instead of

<Location "/projects/myproject/login">
   AuthType Basic
   AuthName "myproject"
   AuthUserFile /var/trac/myproject/.htaccess
   Require valid-user
</Location>

(from the TracModPython wiki entry), use

<Location "/projects/myproject">
   AuthType Basic
   AuthName "myproject"
   AuthUserFile /var/trac/myproject/.htaccess
   Require valid-user
</Location>

Adjust for your authentication methods and project name, of course.   
This does presume that you want all trac users to be logged in, a  
presumption I make due to the reference in your email to WIKI_VIEW  
not being allowed for anonymous users.  If this is not the case, then  
you would have to modify trac itself and I'm not sure exactly where  
you'd want to do that.


Kevin Broderick, Bolton Valley IT Department
kbroderick at boltonvalley.com / 802.434.6807 (V) / 802.329.6807 (F)