On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 19:22, Asiri Rathnayake
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.

Basic or Diggest authentication are authentication entry point (which
receive credentials), WebDav still have to use XWikiRightService to
validate the credentials (authentication back-end where LDAP
authenticator and others are).

>
> 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
>> >
>> >
>> >
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