You folks (I mean all the XWiki developers and contributors) rock! The possibility of easy extendibility of WebDAV feature to support LDAP boosts my belief that XWiki is one of the best Wikis out there.
I had begun to read about WebDAV and authentication and had started to realize that WebDAV assumes an independent authentication mechanism -- though most documents were in context of WebDAV over Apache. The clarification by Thomas supports this conclusion. I'll look forward to updates on this request :) Asiri's mention of Basic and Digest authentication raises another question in my mind. On reading the "Digest Authentication & XWiki" thread it seems that Digest authentication is probably out of question. Is there any documentation specifically for XWiki about how to setup https based login to send the user's password? ________________________________ From: Asiri Rathnayake <[email protected]> To: XWiki Users <[email protected]> Sent: Sat, January 16, 2010 3:12:48 AM Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] Is there a plan to support LDAP authentication for WebDAV feature Hi, > 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). > Ok, I see. In that case it should be possible to provide LDAP support without much effort. I will have a look at how credential validation is currently done in webdav module as make necessary changes. Thanks. - Asiri > > > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
