I have a Ubuntu-based Trac installation covering two SVN repositories. Having to share a single Subversion repository with different teams, who shouldn't have access to the other team's code, I had to activate fine-grained permissions using htpasswd and mod_authz_svn on Apache.
I wanted the Trac installation to obey the same access rules. Therefore, in the corresponding repository's trac.ini file, I added a path to the svn access control file using authz_file=/path/to/svn-access . However, upon trying to visit the root source directory using Trac with my administrative user (who should have access to everything), Trac reports "Insufficient permissions to access /".
I double-checked the htpasswd and svn-access file and ensured that the password there matched, and that my administrative user had full read-write (rw) access to the root of the repository. There must be something else wrong.
#99: Trac reports "Insufficient permissions" when using fine-grained permissions
Solved!on July 13, 2010, 03:18 AM UTC — from 
yliu ( 1,582 views )
yliu ( 1,582 views )
To activate Trac fine-grained permissions, there are two additional steps required
- yliu on July 13, 2010, 03:18 AM UTC
In trac.ini, look for the [trac] section, then set:
Most importantly, you should not forget to set authz_module_name if you used a repository name in svn-access. For example, if your svn-access file looked like:
then authz_module_name for vault1's corresponding trac.ini should be set to vault1.
authz_file = [path to svn-access]
authz_module_name = [repository name or prefix]
#...skipped..
permission_policies = AuthzSourcePolicy, DefaultPermissionPolicy, LegacyAttachmentPolicy
Most importantly, you should not forget to set authz_module_name if you used a repository name in svn-access. For example, if your svn-access file looked like:
[vault1:/foo]
yliu = rw
then authz_module_name for vault1's corresponding trac.ini should be set to vault1.
References used:
TracIni
( http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracIni ) - found by
yliu on July 13, 2010, 03:24 AM UTC