Tracd Realm

Question

I am trying to setup tracd for the project I am currently working on. After creating a password file with the python script given in the site I am trying to start the server with authentication on. But it throws up warning saying No users found in the realm. What actually is a realm - I tried using trac as the value and also tried leaving it empty. I am using Windows XP. I am using Tracd Standalone server.

The Command Line sent was: tracd --port 8000 --auth=My_Test_Project,D:\My_Test_Project\Documents\Trac\digest.txt,Trac D:\My_Test_Project\Documents\Trac

The Warning message was - 'Warning: found no users in realm: trac'

Thanks...

Answer 1

Replacing the above said command line with the one bellow helps.

tracd --port 8000 --auth=Trac,D:\My_Test_Project\Documents\Trac\digest.txt,Trac D:\My_Test_Project\Documents\Trac

The string after --auth= should be the environment name and not the project name.

Answer 2

Check your password digest file. Looking at mine it appears that the output is stored as a line with three fields in this format: username:realm:passwordhash. If your getting that warning then it could be a mismatch between the realm field in the digest file and the realm that you're passing in when launching tracd.

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Looking in the python generator script there are three options:

• -u for user
• -p for password
• -r for realm

When I generate my digest file using this command line (assuming you named it trac-digest.py):

python trac-digest.py -u user -p pass >> digest.txt

it generates this line in my digest.txt:

user:trac:1d395970d2a9a075d0536a4d6e4d0679

So looks like the default realm is trac and launching tracd with the --auth option specified like the documentation says always gives me that warning 'Warning: found no users in realm: realm' But when I generate my digest file using the -r parameter:

python trac-digest.py -u user -p pass -r realm >> digest.txt

it generates this line in my digest.txt:

user:realm:1d395970d2a9a075d0536a4d6e4d0679

And I no longer get that warning when I specify the realm that I passed to trac-digest.py.

Answer 3

The text referred to says that you must specify the realm name as "trac", not "Trac", but I have no chance of testing whether that makes any difference, sorry.