On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Alec Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Historically, the WebAdmin and Spam plugins are the only two imported
> into Trac. Both started life as plugins hosted on t.e.o, both were
> written by cmlenz, and both were imported by him. Both were also long
> overdue.
>
> However, so are others in my opinion: AccountManager definitely.
>

Definitely agreed on large chunks of AccountManager.  Most people
don't really seem to be familiar with how the HTTP authentication
methods work.  They just to be able to register users through the web
and log in via an HTML form, like they're used to from most other CMSs
out there.  This seems to be the most common use case, and making it
more easily available, I think, would eliminate an enormous chunk of
the support questions on the mailing list.  Those of us who need to
switch to different user management backends, or integrate with
existing web server authentication, are more likely to know what we're
doing anyways.  Or at the very least, being less common use cases I
think there would be fewer questions about alternative authentication
setups.  I have no data on this of course, but a browse through the
mailing list archives seems to suggest that most people don't need or
want to think very hard about authentication.

Erik

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