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Redmine Cookbook

You're reading from   Redmine Cookbook Over 80 hands-on recipes to improve your skills in project management, team management, process improvement, and Redmine administration

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785286131
Length 322 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Aleksandar Pavic Aleksandar Pavic
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Preface 1. Installing and Running Redmine 2. Customizing Redmine FREE CHAPTER 3. Project Management with Redmine 4. Improving Team Performance 5. Regular and Planned Maintenance 6. Performance and System Tuning 7. Integrating Redmine with Other Software 8. Getting the Most Out of Scripts and Plugins 9. Troubleshooting 10. Making the Most of Redmine Index

Tuning authentication and auto-login features


Usually when there is no need for maximal security, web applications let users tick a remember me checkbox on the login screen which lets them log in to the application without entering a username and password each time the web application is accessed. Redmine lets you customize this feature by choosing how long users should stay logged in and offers additional authentication features.

How to do it…

To fine-tune authentication features, perform the following actions:

  1. Navigate to Administration | Settings | Authentication.

  2. Choose a setting from the Autologin dropdown.

  3. If anything except disabled is chosen, the Stay logged in checkbox will be hidden on the Login screen:

  4. The options on the Autologin dropdown will let you choose how long a user can stay logged in without the need to enter a username and password each time the browser is opened. Once this date expires, the user will have to re-authenticate, but users can tick the checkbox again and stay...

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