Trac Authenticating Through Active Directory

A minor post – mostly for my own notes..

I was setting up an instance of Trac and I wanted Active Directory authentication going. I’ve had this before, but I recently learned of Centrify which provides a VERY easy means to setup system authentication with AD. This meant I needed to find a Centrify-specific way to get AD authentication going in Trac.

I was close to an obvious simple solution for a fair while, but I kept running in to error messages like:

[error] [client jay] GROUP: mrjay not in required group(s)., referer: http://trac/

Here’s the steps I followed that not only get this far, but got past through to working just fine…
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