Book Image

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

Integrating Redmine with Active Directory


In corporate usage scenarios, companies often rely on LDAP services, such as Microsoft Active Directory (AD) for user authentication, or overall digital identity management. In this case, Redmine does not fall out from the loop, but rather it plays nice with Microsoft Domain; Active Directory or another LDAP compatible service.

Getting ready

Administrator rights are required for Redmine. They are not necessary user account used for accessing Active Directory, but preferred.

How to do it…

This is a multiple steps recipe, the first thing is to figure out details about your AD. To determine proper AD settings, perform the following actions:

  1. Open Windows command line as administrator and type the following:

    whoami /fqdn
    
  2. You will get a response like the following:

    CN=pavic.aleksandar,OU=Engineering,OU=Users,DC=rmtest,DC=local
    
  3. Now type the following:

    nslookup
    

    You will get a response like this:

    Default Server:  dc01.rmtest.local
    Address:  10.20.0.5
    
  4. Open Redmine...