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sr #108510: chmod with non-authenticated resources

Submitter:  Markus KARG <mkarg>
Submitted:  Sat 15 Feb 2014 05:17:18 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Priority:  5 - Normal
Severity:  3 - Normal Status:  Done
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  _71007
Open/Closed:  Closed Operating System:  None
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Sun 16 Feb 2014 06:23:51 PM UTC, comment #3: 

No.
Because local users and WebDAV users are generally different entities managed by different authorities this would require to maintain a mapping between these two sets of users, if possible at all. Additionally ACLs are more complex than Unix file permissions.
All this may be useful for other WebDAV tools. But I can't see any use for a simple file system like davfs2 that would justify the additional effort and complexity.

Werner

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Sun 16 Feb 2014 05:40:38 PM UTC, comment #2: 

Thank you for the link. Now it is clear to us how it works.

Just for couriosity: Do you plan to implement http://www.webdav.org/specs/rfc3744.html ?

Regards
-Markus

Markus KARG <mkarg>
Sun 16 Feb 2014 08:05:23 AM UTC, comment #1: 

"Is there a documentation about that feature?"

Yes. 'man mount.davfs', section FILE OWNER AND PERMISSIONS.

Also note: The local user and the user known by the WebDAV server are completely seperate entities. So, this has nothing to do with wether your server requires authentication or not.

Werner

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Sat 15 Feb 2014 05:17:18 PM UTC, original submission:  

Our WebDAV-Server is operated non-authenticated (it does not support authentication at all). As we have coded the WebDAV-Server on our own we are pretty sure that we do not store any access rights properties anywhere. But when we do chmod followed by ls -la, we see that davfs2 shows up the modified access rights.

So it seems as it davfs2 stores the access rights somewhere on its own. Is there a documentation about that feature?

Markus KARG <mkarg>

 

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