You need to integrate the plugin in your theme, see install document for more info.
If you see error messages like this:
Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to ssl://www.tractis.com:443 (Unable to find the socket transport "ssl" - did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP?)
You need php_openssl module working on your php installation in order to comunicate with tractis services in https.
Yes, in order to store the user information the plugin makes the next database changes:
ALTER TABLE $prefix+comments ADD
tractis_auth_uservarchar(50) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0'ALTER TABLE $prefix+users ADD
tractis_auth_lastloginint(14) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0'ALTER TABLE $prefix+users ADD
tractis_auth_useridvarchar(250) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0'




