ModAuthUserDir

Apache2 module to create private user folders mainly for using the WebDAV? protocol. Users will have only permissions to access to their own directory. It only matches a given path with the attached username to the path of the acutal request. If they match the user is granted access. The actual user authentication (login and password) is delegated to other Apache modules like mod_authnz_ldap.

It is based on an earlier implementation by Genos: http://www.genos.org/index.php/Mod_auth_user_dir.

How it works

Let's take a look on how this module works/should work by an example where an alias is defined in Apache:

Alias /webdav/ /home/webdav/
<Location /webdav/>
  AuthType Basic
  AuthBasicProvider ldap
  AuthName "User-Homes"
  AuthLDAPURL "ldaps://ldap.example.org/dc=example,dc=org?uid"
  Require valid-user
  AuthUserDirRoot /home/webdav/
</Location>

Protected Path	Requested Filename	Username	Result
/home/webdav/	/webdav/FooBar/	FooBar	Access is granted.
/home/webdav/	/webdav/FooBar/directory/page.html	FooBar	Access is granted.
/home/webdav/	/FooBar/	FooBar	Not inside protected path, so no decision is made.
/home/webdav/	/webdav/	FooBar	No private path requested but user is logged in. In the current 0.2 release access is denied but this maybe changes in the next releases.
/home/webdav/	/webdav/JohnDoe/	FooBar	Username does not match requested path, access is denied.
/home/webdav/	/webdav/FooBar2/	FooBar	Username does not match requested path, access is denied.

Sourcecode

Browse

To take a quick look on the source you can browse the Subversion repository either by WebSVN or in raw format.

Checkout

svn co http://subversion.fladi.at/scratchpad/FladischerMichael/trunk/mod_auth_user_dir/

Download

• mod-authz-user-dir-0.2.tar.gz

Packages

Debian

All packages are signed with my GPG-key 0x314C5066.

• libapache2-mod-authz-user-dir_0.2-1_amd64.deb
• libapache2-mod-authz-user-dir_0.2-1_i386.deb
• libapache2-mod-authz-user-dir_0.2-1.diff.gz
• libapache2-mod-authz-user-dir_0.2-1.dsc
• libapache2-mod-authz-user-dir_0.2.orig.tar.gz