Trac Authenticating Through Active Directory

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 10:06:18 +0000

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:

Quick Recipe for MediaWiki with AD logins

Wed, 02 Feb 2011 13:24:40 +0000

Here’s a quick recipe for getting a server up with MediaWiki running and having Active Directory Logins working with it… I’ll warn you, there are other ways of doing this. I find this to satisfy my needs, but if you manage to cause the world to implode, I won’t be held responsible.

Step 1: Set up your server

I created an Ubuntu 10.10 server VM for this, use whatever if you have some sort of issue against doing the same as me.

Centrify on

Trac Authenticating Through Active Directory

Quick Recipe for MediaWiki with AD logins