Redmine

I just installed Redmine/Nginx/WebDav/Apache/SVN this weekend. I really like the whole setup. Redmine itself was super easy to install and get running under MySQL.

What I would like is when I create/update a user in Redmine that the BasicAuth password file controlling SVN is updated at the same time.

I thought I had this figured out when I saw that the Redmine passwords were hashed with SHA1, cool I will just write a quick script to extract them from the DB and populate the htpasswd file.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/misc/password_encryptions.html

BUT! Nginx which I use to wrap a WebDav Share + SVN + Redmine + a paste bin app into a single entry point cannot use SHA1 passwords, it can only use crypt.

I have never programmed in Ruby, I can hardly understand the syntax. So I am completely lost for now when it comes to working with Redmine's code.

I found the users.rb file in models, I patched in a call to system() to exec a python script to set the passwords. But it only works for update, not create so now I have to

1. create user
2. reset password

Then I have unified password control from redmine and don't need to enter the password in two places.

What do people think about adding the path to the .htpasswd file that controls access for svn and letting redmine manage those passwords as well? Full authz, user, groups stuff could come later.

Would the patch be against, /app/models/user.rb or would it go somewhere else?

Thoughts? How do you handle user/password management?