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Mastering Redmine - Second Edition

By : ANDRIY LESYUK
Book Image

Mastering Redmine - Second Edition

By: ANDRIY LESYUK

Overview of this book

Redmine is not only one of the popular open source project management applications but also one of the best project hosting and issue tracking solutions. This book is an update of our previous successful edition, Mastering Redmine. This book is a comprehensive guide that will give you a detailed practical understanding on how to effectively manage, monitor and administer complex projects using Redmine. You will get familiar with the concept of Issue Tracking and will get to know why and what makes Redmine one of the best issue trackers. Another main part of Redmine functionality, which is Managing projects shows why this is one of the best applications for project hosting. Furthermore, you will learn more about Redmine rich text formatting syntax, access control and workflow and time Tracking. Towards the end, you will unleash the power of custom fields and guides to show how to customize Redmine without breaking upgrade compatibility. By the end of the book, you will have a deep practical understanding on how to effectively monitor and manage large scale and complex projects using Redmine.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Mastering Redmine Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Quick Syntax Reference
Index

The first thing to fix


A fresh Redmine installation has only one user account, which has administrator privileges. You can see it in the following screenshot:

This account is exactly the same by default on all Redmine installations. That's why it is extremely important to change its credentials immediately after you complete the installation, especially for Redmine instances that can be accessed publicly.

The administrator credentials can be changed on the Users page of the Administration menu. To do this, click on the admin link. You will see this screen:

In this form, you should specify a new password in the Password and Confirmation fields (actually, you should have done this in the previous chapter). Also, it's recommended that you change the login to something different. Additionally, consider specifying your email instead of [email protected] (at least), and changing the First name and Last name.