--- loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Domain_Configuration_Quotas.tex 2015/03/26 18:46:58 1.4 +++ loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Domain_Configuration_Quotas.tex 2015/05/29 20:25:16 1.5 @@ -32,15 +32,23 @@ Authoring Spaces. WebDAV allows a user to connect to an Authoring Space in the same way as removable media, and to use their own laptop/desktop computer's file management tools and -applications to move, edit and delete files. In the case of MacOS, the user selects -the ``Go'' item in the Finder toolbar and selects ``Connect to Server''. -The user will then enter a URL for a library server where the authoring space is located: -e.g., https:// $<$ hostname $>$ /webdav/ $<$dom$>$ / $<$ username $>$/ where dom is the domain -and username is the username of the Authoring Space owner. +applications to move, edit and delete files. See: ``WebDAV access to Authoring Space'' +section in the Authoring manual for more information. + Note: webDAV usage requires Apache with SSL to be running on the library server. The user will be prompted to enter a username (this will be the LON-CAPA username if the user is also the author, or username:domain of the user, -if the access is for a co-author), and the user's LON-CAPA password. +if the access is for a co-author), and the user's LON-CAPA password. + +If you use Single Sign On to authenticate LON-CAPA users in your domain, then to +support webDAV you also need to support authentication by LON-CAPA for your users. +This can achieved if the authentication type stored internally for each SSO user is +set to either (a) Kerberos 5 (with a parameter -- the appropriate Kerberos realm +set), or (b) Local Authentication, with /home/httpd/lib/perl/localauth.pm +customized to verify username and password (e.g., via LDAP). If a user can log-in +to LON-CAPA via the URL /adm/login (thereby by-passing SSO), then the same user will +also be able to authenticate using a WebDAV client (assuming other requirements are +met, i.e., SSL, WebDAV access enabled, active author or co-author role). The requirement to obsolete published files before moving or deleting them, which applies to the regular web browser-based management of Authoring Space, also applies in the webDAV