Trac Permissions

This section describes the standard "TRAC" permissions. Nokia Projects adds some additional permissions, which are discussed in ProjectsGroupPermissions. In general you should start with that document unless you're interested in a general Trac permission.

Trac uses a simple, case sensitive, permission system to control what users can and can't access.

Permission privileges are managed using the Permissions | Groups section in the Admin tab of the web interface.

Non-authenticated users accessing the system are assigned the name "anonymous". Assign permissions to the "anonymous" user to set privileges for anonymous/guest users. The parts of Trac that a user does not have the privileges for will not be displayed in the navigation.

In addition to these privileges, users can be granted additional individual rights in effect when authenticated and logged into the system. All logged in users belong to the virtual group "authenticated", which inherits permissions from "anonymous".

Available Privileges

To enable all privileges for a user, use the TRAC_ADMIN permission. Having TRAC_ADMIN is like being root on a *NIX system: it will allow you to perform any operation.

Otherwise, individual privileges can be assigned to users for the various different functional areas of Trac (note that the privilege names are case-sensitive):

Repository Browser

BROWSER_VIEW	View directory listings in the repository browser
LOG_VIEW	View revision logs of files and directories in the repository browser
FILE_VIEW	View files in the repository browser
CHANGESET_VIEW	View repository check-ins

Ticket System

TICKET_VIEW	View existing tickets and perform ticket queries
TICKET_CREATE	Create new tickets
TICKET_APPEND	Add comments or attachments to tickets
TICKET_CHGPROP	Modify ticket properties (priority, assignment, keywords, etc.) with the following exceptions: edit description field, add/remove other users from cc field when logged in, and set email to pref
TICKET_MODIFY	Includes both TICKET_APPEND and TICKET_CHGPROP, and in addition allows resolving tickets. Tickets can be assigned to users through a drop-down list when the list of possible owners has been restricted.
TICKET_EDIT_CC	Full modify cc field
TICKET_EDIT_DESCRIPTION	Modify description field
TICKET_BATCH_MODIFY	Modify a group of tickets at once
TICKET_EDIT_COMMENT	Edit comments
TICKET_ADMIN	All TICKET_* permissions, plus the deletion of ticket attachments and modification of the reporter and description fields. It also allows managing ticket properties in the WebAdmin? panel.

Attention: the "view tickets" button appears with the REPORT_VIEW permission.

Roadmap

MILESTONE_VIEW	View milestones and assign tickets to milestones.
MILESTONE_CREATE	Create a new milestone
MILESTONE_MODIFY	Modify existing milestones
MILESTONE_DELETE	Delete milestones
MILESTONE_ADMIN	All MILESTONE_* permissions
ROADMAP_VIEW	View the roadmap page, is not (yet) the same as MILESTONE_VIEW, see ​#4292
ROADMAP_ADMIN	to be removed with ​#3022, replaced by MILESTONE_ADMIN

Reports

REPORT_VIEW	View reports?, i.e. the "view tickets" link.
REPORT_SQL_VIEW	View the underlying SQL query of a report?
REPORT_CREATE	Create new reports?
REPORT_MODIFY	Modify existing reports?
REPORT_DELETE	Delete reports?
REPORT_ADMIN	All REPORT_* permissions

Wiki System

WIKI_VIEW	View existing wiki pages
WIKI_CREATE	Create new wiki pages
WIKI_MODIFY	Change wiki pages
WIKI_DELETE	Delete wiki pages and attachments
WIKI_RENAME	Rename existing wiki pages
WIKI_ADMIN	All WIKI_* permissions, plus the management of readonly pages.

Permissions

PERMISSION_GRANT	add/grant a permission
PERMISSION_REVOKE	remove/revoke a permission
PERMISSION_ADMIN	All PERMISSION_* permissions

Others

TIMELINE_VIEW	View the timeline page
SEARCH_VIEW	View and execute search queries
SUMMARY_VIEW	View the summary tab
CONFIG_VIEW	Enables additional pages on About Trac that show the current configuration or the list of installed plugins
EMAIL_VIEW	Shows email addresses even if ​trac show_email_addresses configuration option is false