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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

Tuning authentication and auto-login features


Usually when there is no need for maximal security, web applications let users tick a remember me checkbox on the login screen which lets them log in to the application without entering a username and password each time the web application is accessed. Redmine lets you customize this feature by choosing how long users should stay logged in and offers additional authentication features.

How to do it…

To fine-tune authentication features, perform the following actions:

  1. Navigate to Administration | Settings | Authentication.

  2. Choose a setting from the Autologin dropdown.

  3. If anything except disabled is chosen, the Stay logged in checkbox will be hidden on the Login screen:

  4. The options on the Autologin dropdown will let you choose how long a user can stay logged in without the need to enter a username and password each time the browser is opened. Once this date expires, the user will have to re-authenticate, but users can tick the checkbox again and stay...