16 Jan
2010
16 Jan
'10
2:21 p.m.
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?
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From: Asiri Rathnayake <asiri.rathnayake(a)gmail.com>
To: XWiki Users <users(a)xwiki.org>
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,
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At the moment XWiki cannot support Digest
Authentication and I'm not sure
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
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).
Thanks.
- Asiri
>
> Regards,
> Milind
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Thomas Mortagne <thomas.mortagne(a)xwiki.com>
> To: XWiki Users <users(a)xwiki.org>
> 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 <mbkads(a)yahoo.com> 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.
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