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Redmine Cookbook

By : Shamasis Bhattacharya
Book Image

Redmine Cookbook

By: Shamasis Bhattacharya

Overview of this book

In a variety of online project management tools, Redmine markets itself as offering flexibility. Choosing the right management tool can mean the difference between the success and failure of a project. Flexible project management tools bend themselves to fit your needs, whether that’s communication regarding a simple project, or collaboration, or more complex project methodology such as SCRUM, or an issue-code relationship, or the need of different methodology for your project. Whether you are project manager or system administrator, this book provides valuable recipes to get the best possible performance out of your team, organization, infrastructure, and Redmine itself. Through a series of carefully crafted recipes covering the nitty-gritty of Redmine, you’ll be guided through the installation of Redmine, as well as how to fine-tune and customize your Redmine installation. Finally, we walk you through integrating Redmine with other softwares and databases like Tortoise SVN and Visual Studio and troubleshooting Redmine.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Redmine Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Enhancing security


This recipe covers the security of the server, database, and the communication of the user's browser and e-mail communication through SSL so that no data goes unencrypted from and to a Redmine system.

Getting ready

Make sure that you have server administration privileges. Prepare self-generated or obtain proper and valid SSL certificates for your server (Apache, IIS). To generate a free, but valid, certificate and install it, follow the guidelines in the Enhancing security recipe of Chapter 10, Making the Most of Redmine.

How to do it…

To ensure maximal security of your Redmine box, follow these steps:

  1. Make sure that the web server running your Redmine is running as a separate user or group from other web presentations.

  2. Make sure that the server is properly updated and the root password is used only by server administrators.

  3. Change root and user's administering passwords every few months.

  4. Don't use the same password for database and server's user.

  5. Configure Redmine to communicate...