DAV
Joe Orton
jorton at redhat.com
Thu Oct 7 15:49:10 UTC 2004
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 09:52:33AM -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Steven Pritchard wrote:
> >On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 09:25:26AM -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
> >
> >>Lots of web users use FTP to upload files. FTP has a chmod command; it
> >>does not have commands to alter SELinux labels (and even if such
> >>commands were added, you aren't liable to get WSFTP and such to change
> >>just to support a few Linux servers).
> >>
> >>Not all users have shell access either.
> >
> >
> >Switch to DAV maybe?
>
> I have yet to find any usable DAV client/server implementations for
> linux (though I admit that I haven't looked *that* hard) that support
> ~user directories.
The *client* doesn't care about ~user directories. Having a DAV server
which can manipulate files in ~user directories under ownership of said
user requires running the server as root, which is really not something
you want to do.
joe
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