Ubuntu – Can’t login to Redmine after fresh install on Ubuntu

redmineUbuntuubuntu-10.04

I did a fresh install of Redmine on Ubuntu 10.04, following the instructions here

After the installation, I visited http://localhost/redmine, and the site came up successfully. I then registered a user by clicking Register. It seemed successful, but I was unable to login with the user. In /etc/redmine/default/database.yml, it lists a user named redmine and a password (that I had entered during the installation) stored in plain text. I was also unable to login with this account.

Are there any ideas? Perhaps there is something obvious that I'm missing. Is there a way for me to manually check and see if the users I registered were registered successfully?

Note I noticed in the documentation that when registering a user, Redmine is supposed to send an email to the user in order to activate the account. It's not doing this, which could be the problem. This still doesn't explain why I can't login with the redmine account though.

Best Answer

The default account information in Redmine is:

username: admin

password: admin

This account works - my other accounts were failing to login because they had not been activated. I was able to activate the users by logging in with the admin account and going to the Administration page.

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Ldap – How to set up Redmine => Active Directory authentication

Okay, so here are the specific settings that I needed in order to make this work:

Host: ims.example.com
Port: 389
User: MYDOMAIN\accountName
Password: *******
Base DN: dc=mydomain,dc=example,dc=com

On-The-Fly User Creation: YES
Login: sAMAccountName
Firstname: givenName
Lastname: sN
Email: mail

The trick was removing cn=Users from the Base DN, after which it all sort of came together.

The other notable thing was the inclusion of a user to read the directory.

Lastly, the user that logs in uses their user name without domain qualification, and their domain password as usual. Our domain does not require an email address, so there is an additional step where the email address has to be set during user creation, but that's pretty straightforward.

Ubuntu – Redmine installation on Ubuntu … now what

Unfortunately the redmine Ubuntu package requires some manual configuration before you can get started. Now that redmine is installed, you still have to make it accessible through a real web server. An easy way to do this is with Apache with the mod_passenger plugin.

Just edit your /etc/apache2/sites-available/default (or default-ssl), adding:

RailsBaseURI /redmine
PassengerDefaultUser www-data

Then configure /etc/redmine/default/database.yml as necessary and run ln -s /usr/share/redmine/public /var/www/redmine. That should do the trick.

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Ldap – How to set up Redmine => Active Directory authentication

Ubuntu – Redmine installation on Ubuntu … now what

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