Yeah: mod_dav itself has no direct support for ACLs. Way back when, when I wrote mod_dav and was working on DAV stuff in general, the ACL stuff created an interesting problem: how to propagate access control changes to all the httpd processes. If the processes do not contain the ACLs, then the implication is a query on each(!) request. That made me a bit uncomfortable, and I never pursued it much further.
It may be fair to say that servers today (compared to a decade ago, when I worked on this stuff) are highly overpowered relative to the network bandwidth, and this kind of dynamic ACL query is not a problem any more. Cheers, -g On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 10:53, Brian J. France <br...@brianfrance.com> wrote: > I had started breaking up the patches from mod_dav_acl into smaller chunks > and getting them imported into the trunk. > > My goal was to get a mod_dav_acl like module added. I say like because > mod_dav_acl currently requires xfs and stores the auth information in the xfs > attributes and I wanted to create a more authn type module. Something that > could have a flat file, dbm, dbd, etc type plugins. > > After mod_dav_acl was done I wanted to get mod_caldav and mod_cardav imported > as well, but free time dried up and I never finished. > > Brian > > > On Feb 1, 2012, at 10:38 AM, Andreas wrote: > >> Good evening. >> >> Where can I find out if httpd/mod_dav has support for ACL's? >> >> After digging in the mailinglist, there seem to have been some activity >> about the topic in 2007 and 2009 but no patches seem to be applied. >> >> I checked today on 2.3beta, there is no "--enable-dav-acl" option yet >> (unless enabled by default?). >> >> I could not find any bugzilla issue tracking the patches either, so now >> I ask here as a last resort if anyone knows status on it. :) >> >> >> Regards >> -- >> Andreas >> >> ... Mental backup in progress - Do Not Disturb! >> >
