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 >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > 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 > -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
