Disable Trac Authentication for local Usage

Question

I set up a local Trac wiki using a conda env, where I installed all dependencies, except the system packages, which I installed in the system:

trac-admin . initenv

I entered the required infos like project name there. Then I run the Trac standalone server.

tracd --port 8000 .

inside the directory, where I set up the wiki.

Since this is supposed to be a wiki, which I use locally myself and not for any multiuser setup, I don't need any authentication functionality. How can I deactivate any authentication or need for login for Trac?

I know that I don't have permissions, because I used the quick search field for a page, which could not exist and when the wiki showed no results, it didn't offer a create page button of any kind. According to the StartPage, this means I don't have permissions.

I couldn't find any enable/disable setting for this in the ./conf/trac.ini to do this. It would also be acceptable to find an easy way to create a user, as which I login to Trac, but all the guides from Trac documentation assume prior knowledge of some kind of configuration files and they don't explain those exactly. For example here. Where does that configuration file even go and what kind of syntax does this use? Not really helpful.

Answer 1

You are correct that you need to modify the permissions (authorization). The permissions are stored in the database rather than trac.ini. You need to grant permission using trac-admin utility. See TracPermissions.

trac-admin $env permission add anonymous WIKI_CREATE WIKI_MODIFY WIKI_DELETE WIKI_RENAME

For help, execute:

trac-admin $env permission help

If you wish to setup authentication, see TracStandalone: UsingAuthentication.