Hi, On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 11:43 PM, Milind Kamble <[email protected]> wrote:
> The http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Features/WebDAV page says > "Wiki's WebDAV implementation only supports Basic Access Authentication and > it doesn't support locking and versioning DAV operations yet.". > I confirmed this by using NetDrive webdav client to authenticate with my > xwiki installation which uses LDAP and it failed to authenticate -- but I > could connect as local user "Admin". > So it definitely seems to need some enhancement to support LDAP. > WebDAV specification has defined two authentication mechanisms in it. - Basic Access Authentication - Digest Authentication At the moment XWiki cannot support Digest Authentication and I'm not sure whether LDAP authentication can be done for WebDAV. I will look around a bit and get back to you on this. Thanks. - Asiri > > Regards, > Milind > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]> > To: XWiki Users <[email protected]> > Sent: Fri, January 15, 2010 11:37:15 AM > Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] Is there a plan to support LDAP authentication > for WebDAV feature > > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 16:48, Milind Kamble <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi. I searched this mailing list and xwiki docs for this information but > didn't find anything. > > Is there any plan to extend the authentication mechanism in WebDAV > component to support LDAP? I felt that having access to page content and > attachment folders via shared drive (using NetDrive) would be immensely > attractive for end users because of the ability to use enhanced editors to > directly edit page content and the ability to upload/manage multiple > attachments. > > Well authentication mechanism is generic for the whole XWiki platform. > If WebDAV support any authentication then it supports LDAP, i doubt an > authentication system has been coded specifically for WebDAV module. > It would be weird that WebDAV does not use it but i don't know WebDAV > module very well. > > > > > Thanks, > > Milind > > M > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > > > > > -- > Thomas Mortagne > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > > > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users > _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
