RE: Limiting COPY method for WebDAV to one direction

["Mark Lavi" <mlavi@xxxxxxx>]

Ah, you’ve changed the scope of your question. J

 

So long as you leverage an Apache authorization module with user and group permissions, I would think you could control permissions on who can do what per directory easily, but for this solution, you would not give both groups WebDAV access.

 

One group (read only) could browse the web server and download contents of the autogenerated directory while the other group would be authenticated to have WebDAV privileges. It’s simpler to manage and granular to the directory, but not exactly what you are asking for because not both groups are given WebDAV permissions. So the read only group could not do a select all files to download, much like a network drive operation, unless they used some sort of browser enhancement.

 

Configuration would be something like (I’m doing this off the top of my head for illustration, please don’t expect to cut and paste this without syntax correction and adaptation for your situation):

 

<Directory "/www/docroot/projects/X">

  Options Indexes

  AllowOverride None

  AuthType Basic

  AuthName "Only group X can publish!"

  AuthUserFile /home/www/acl/htpasswdfile

  AuthGroupFile /home/www/acl/groupfile

  DAV On

  <LimitExcept GET HEAD OPTIONS>

   Require group X

  </LimitExcept>

 </Directory>

 

--Mark

Mark Lavi, Enterprise Web Management Team @ SGI

mailto:mlavi@xxxxxxx || phone:+1-650-933-7707

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From: Todd Hivnor [mailto:spambox_98103@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 11:15 AM
To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Limiting COPY method for WebDAV to one direction

 

Updating the permissions on the file system will work for folders which are strictly read-only. But in a lot of cases, I want the folder to be readable by group X and writable by group Y.



Mark Lavi <mlavi@xxxxxxx> wrote:

I don’t know of an Apache/WebDAV solution off the top of my head for your requirement, but it is probably easiest to address this from the filesystem: change the permissions on the directory to be read only.

 

--Mark

Mark Lavi, Enterprise Web Management Team @

 SGI

mailto:mlavi@xxxxxxx || phone:+1-650-933-7707

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From: Todd Hivnor [mailto:spambox_98103@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 3:44 PM
To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Limiting COPY method for WebDAV to one direction

 

I am running WebDAV on my Apache 2.0.51 server on Fedora Core 2. 

 

 I would like to allow users to copy files _from_ a certain directory, 

 but not _into_ it. However, if I allow the COPY method (via a the 

 LimitExcept tag)  then I am allowing copy _from_ and copy _to_. There doesn't 

 seem to be able to any means to control the direction of the copy 

 method. 

 

 Is there are way to

 configure this? It seems like a fairly basic 

 requirement: a read-only WebDAV folder which allows users to copy files into 

 their personal directories, with a direct HTTP COPY call. 

 

  - Todd

 

 

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