I need to use Trac for project management issues, but cannot setup authentication. I use the following link. There is no Apache server on my VPS needed, so I use default tracd server.
Following command is used for launching service:
tracd -s --port 8000 --basic-auth="myproj,/home/git/trac/myproj/
.htpasswd,myproj" /home/git/trac/myproj
In .htpasswd file follwing line is presented:
admin:f5a9455f6b064fd41d833d3f8f1376fb
where
f5a9455f6b064fd41d833d3f8f1376fb
is a password encrypted by MD5. This MD5 hash has been generated by online generator due to lack of htpasswd.py and htdigest.py in my installation (at least I did not manage to find it).
Actually, I was trying another encryptors (such as SHA-1 or SSHA) but with the same output.
When I try to login into trac via corresponding button in the top right corner, I get an error 401:
[29/May/2016 09:04:19] "GET /login HTTP/1.1" 401 -
[29/May/2016 09:04:27] "GET /login HTTP/1.1" 401 -
[29/May/2016 09:04:48] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 -
[29/May/2016 09:04:50] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 -
[29/May/2016 09:04:50] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 -
And the browser window for authentication appears again and again. What am I doing wrong?
Thank you for your answers!
Thanks for RjOllos who helped me to find the solution.
The key of problem was hidden in password generation, as I expected. Probably it is possible to use the file htpasswd.py that was provided in the comment above. But I've done following:
Check if htpasswd utility exists:
which htpasswd
if there is a following output
root@server1:~# which htpasswd
/usr/bin/htpasswd
root@server1:~#
you just can skip the next step.
If not, you need to install apache-utils by command:
apt-get install apache2-utils
Then you can generate a password for a new user:
htpasswd -c /home/git/trac/myproj/.htpasswd new_user
After execution you will be prompted to type a password for 'new_user'.
Finally, call the command provided above
tracd -s --port 8000 --basic-auth="myproj,/home/git/trac/myproj/ .htpasswd,myproj" /home/git/trac/myproj