Authenticate Trac Against phpBB
So, Chuck, over at Cobra wanted to get his trac site up and running and was wondering about using the exisiting accounts that people had in the phpBB3 forums. Trac being Python, and phpBB being, obviously, PHP, there was no stock way of accomplishing this.
First, Trac's authentication meme is basically: get someone else to do it. Generally speaking, this is the web server. That's all fine and dandy, but some people want a bit more. Thankfully, Matt Good wrote the Account Manager plugin. This neat little plugin lets you auth against the trac db, htpasswd files, htdigest files, etc. It also allows for easier management of accounts. The most wonderful thing about it, however, is the IPasswordStore interface it defines. This little beauty lets you auth against just about anything where the input is a username and password.
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15 Character Limit
Let's establish some facts.
- MS SQL Server 2005 allows the sa password to be longer than 15 characters.
- MS Windows XP allows a password longer than 15 characters.
Given these two facts, one would assume that Microsoft has a policy of allowing arbitrary length password (or at least really long ones). However, if one were to assume this, one would be wrong.
Microsoft's Business Solutions - Great Plains 8 does NOT allow passwords longer than 15 characters. I'll admit that GP8 is a bit out of date. It was released in 2003, I believe. But, really, was there a need to limit password lengths in 2003? I don't think so.
Once again, thank you Microsoft for such a wonderful piece of software. If anyone is considering Microsoft Dynamics:GP (as it is now called), save yourself the misery and check out HansaWorld or some other product instead.
DIAF
PyCon 2008 - Here I Come!
PyCon is March 14th through 16th with the 17th through 20th being open for sprints. PyCon was a blast last year, thanks to Financial Aid from the PSF. Thankfully, my employer is sending me this year. I'll be taking the SQLAlchemy tutorials along with Automating Windows Applications with win32com. I'm horribly excited!
So, you should all sign up and attend PyCon. It's a great time to geek out with lots of other Python developers. Come join the Trac sprint and have a good time. If you need a little assistance, shoot off an application to the PSF for Financial Aid. Hope to see you there.
Thanks to coderanger, we will always know what day Easter is. 
As is evidenced by the lack of modification of the logo at the top of the page, this site is run on trac. It is a great piece of software that provides a wonderful plugin system. The "official" site for plugins and other modifications to trac is trac-hacks.org. Go check it out.
2008-03-23