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WebDav Acces (User Auths) with JDBC Datasource
Hello.
I am trying to set up a webdav server that hits a MySQL database to get
the authentication information. I also want to direct the user to their
"home" directory structure after they log in.
Is this possible and, if so, does anyone out there have any experience
with it?
Thanks,
Michael
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Re: WebDav Acces (User Auths) with JDBC Datasource
Posted by Andy Depue <an...@marathon-man.com>.
WebDAV is only part of our architecture. We have rich clients that also
communicate with services via Spring's http based remote protocol and via
JMS. Sometimes the client may access a document directly, but sometimes the
client may invoke a service which then needs access to a document. The user
must be authenticated to access the service, which must be authenticated to
access the document (with the user's priveledges). We wanted to keep all
authentication in one place (Acegi) and handle it consistently in all cases
for security purposes, scalability purposes, and auditing purposes. Acegi
provides a set of servlet filters that handle all authentication up-front,
before servlets are invoked (such as the remote invocation servlet, or the
remote JMS servlet, or the WebDAV servlet). This keeps authentication in one
"place", which benefits those things I mentioned earlier (security,
scalability, and auditing).
- Andy
On Friday 18 March 2005 08:28 am, Michael J. Prichard wrote:
> Hey Andy,
>
> Thanks for the response and the code. I am curious, what reason did you
> build the authentication outside of Slide?
>
> I am new to Slide (and Webdav) so please bear with me :)
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
>
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Re: WebDav Acces (User Auths) with JDBC Datasource
Posted by "Michael J. Prichard" <mi...@willowtreeinteractive.com>.
Hey Andy,
Thanks for the response and the code. I am curious, what reason did you
build the authentication outside of Slide?
I am new to Slide (and Webdav) so please bear with me :)
Thanks,
Michael
Andy Depue wrote:
>I submitted code a few weeks ago to accomplish something very similar. You
>will still have to write a few simple methods (by implementing a DAO style
>interface) to retrieve your users from MySQL, but my contribution takes care
>of mapping your user info to the principal store format that Slide expects.
>My code also assumes that you are not relying on Slide to authenticate, but
>have already authenticated the current user before entering Slide. My
>"principal store" implementation does not expose passwords to Slide, only
>user information, roles, etc. Take a look at
>http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33639 for my contribution.
>I also include code to integrate Acegi authentication (which is what we use)
>with Slide's WebDAV servlet - and to facilitate some IoC style configuration
>(in my case, Spring).
>
> - Andy
>
>On Thursday 17 March 2005 08:01 pm, Michael J. Prichard wrote:
>
>
>>Hello.
>>
>>I am trying to set up a webdav server that hits a MySQL database to get
>>the authentication information. I also want to direct the user to their
>>"home" directory structure after they log in.
>>
>>Is this possible and, if so, does anyone out there have any experience
>>with it?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Michael
>>
>>
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Re: WebDav Acces (User Auths) with JDBC Datasource
Posted by Andy Depue <an...@marathon-man.com>.
I submitted code a few weeks ago to accomplish something very similar. You
will still have to write a few simple methods (by implementing a DAO style
interface) to retrieve your users from MySQL, but my contribution takes care
of mapping your user info to the principal store format that Slide expects.
My code also assumes that you are not relying on Slide to authenticate, but
have already authenticated the current user before entering Slide. My
"principal store" implementation does not expose passwords to Slide, only
user information, roles, etc. Take a look at
http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33639 for my contribution.
I also include code to integrate Acegi authentication (which is what we use)
with Slide's WebDAV servlet - and to facilitate some IoC style configuration
(in my case, Spring).
- Andy
On Thursday 17 March 2005 08:01 pm, Michael J. Prichard wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I am trying to set up a webdav server that hits a MySQL database to get
> the authentication information. I also want to direct the user to their
> "home" directory structure after they log in.
>
> Is this possible and, if so, does anyone out there have any experience
> with it?
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
>
>
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