On 04/23/2012 03:52 PM, Ed W wrote:
> On 23/04/2012 08:50, Frank Bonnet wrote:
>>
>> Hello
>>
>> I would like to know if the following is possible with NGINX :
>>
>> Setup a PERSONAL webdav access to our users, that is giving
>> access to their unix home directories thru a secure webdav.
>>
>> If I understand well the main problem is the httpd process
>> has to switch to the user's identity after authentication ( LDAP )
>> to let him have RW access to his workspace.
>>
>> Is it possible with the nginx beast ?
>> If yes, links to documentation would be welcome !
>>
>> Thank you
>
> Another option seems to be to run a webdav client via some kind of
> CGI. There is a PHP library which gets plenty of recommendations.
> I'm going to be investigating the Mojolicious webdav library because
> it looks easy to extend and integrate into my environment (depends if
> you have the capability to do some development). There is also a
> promising looking Perl DAV implementation
>
> I also came across a dav implementation testing tool. Don't have the
> name at my fingertips, but it seems like a rather good idea to run it
> against your proposed implementation to at least baseline the kinds of
> issues you can look forward to later.
>
> If you want to use nginx then I think it works ok if you collect
> together the various patches and apply permissions via nginx
> permission levels. Not tried though as I decided the authentication
> wasn't likely to be flexible enough for my needs (probably the fastest
> option though?)
>
> Good luck
>
> Ed W

Hello
I'm affraid not being a developper only an admin :-)
I was asking in case of such function do exists ...

I really think it would be a great help for our users
but I am unable to write it ...

anyway thanks for your answer/explains !


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