On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 08:56, District Webmaster wrote: > I'm exploring using WebDAV for several thousand users. Ideally, each > user would have their own directory, to which only they could write. I > know it's possible to doing this w/ apache, by enabling the correct > modules and adding various instructions to the httpd.conf file, but it > seems that you have to add users manually to the file -- and stop and > restart the httpd server every time you added or removed a user.
I did some searching once in the same direction and found the same restrictions you did. I keep wondering if the suEXEC module has the answer. You can configure suEXEC to operate on user folders (/~user) with the UID of that user. Maybe that effects DAV as well? One of the problems with DAV on Apache is that files get saved with the permissions of the apache user. suEXEC could fix that. It's very probably that there is some way of making it all work like you want to. Especially because that's probably exactly what apple is doing for their iDisk thing. > > Even if the process could be automated, I'm not wild about restarting > the server for every user change. Changes could be done as a batch > process (once a day, for example), but I'd really like to have them made > in real time. You rarely need to restart the service, especially not for this kind of thing. Just reload the configs (service httpd reload). > > I'm just learning about WebDAV, so I may not even be asking the right > questions. > > Any suggestions? ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
