I am busy researching the idea of an Apache + DAV server that would do the job of what a typical Samba server does now - file sharing. An Apache server would have the advantage of native SSL support, flexible authentication configuration, etc.
One thing I would like to be able to do is have the DAV server read and write files as system users, along the lines of what suexec achieves for cgi programs. Obviously the DAV server would need to run as root (or have some mechanism like suexec) in order to achieve this, and would probably be set up as a private stripped down DAV-only server hiding behind a reverse proxy of some kind in order to improve security.
The perchild mpm seems to be the closest thing to what I am looking for, but the manual warns that it is not functional. Is this still the case?
Can perchild support the idea of becoming a user specified via an auth module using something like basic authentication?
Regards, Graham --
