Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: Bug trackers (was Re: [Ethereal-dev] Buildbot crash output)

[Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Graham Bloice wrote:
>>Gerald Combs wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Agreed.  It looks like you have to manage "real" users via Apache's
>>>authentication mechanism, i.e. use "htpasswd" to do adds, moves, and
>>>changes by hand:
>>>
>>>   http://lists.edgewall.com/archive/trac/2004-October/000967.html
>>>
>>>Unless there's a workaround, this is a show-stopper as far as
>>
>>I'm concerned.
>>
>>>
>>Yes, that really is a no go.
>>
> 
> 
> I believe that you can use any apache authentication method.  I'm no apache
> guru but I would have thought that there would have been something
> available.  How do you want to do the authentication ? I'll have a look
> around for something suitable.

A simple htpasswd file is fine with me.  My main requirements are that
users would be able to add accounts themselves and change their
passwords (which would presumably require tying an email address to the
account, or make the account name a valid email address like Bugzilla).

There have been a couple of threads about this general topic on the Trac
mailing list:

http://lists.edgewall.com/archive/trac/2004-September/#712

http://lists.edgewall.com/archive/trac/2004-November/thread.html#1087