[nycbug-talk] ipad remote storage question

[Joe Dunn]

I'm not sure but wouldn't this is a good use for cfengine

have a ipad_users (array of users) in a slist and then have that dump into a
ipad_users.conf which is included in apache.

When you have the next batch of users just add them to that list and it will
generate automagically.

There is probably a better, cleaner way but this comes to find as a
solution.

Joe

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Edward Capriolo <edlinuxguru at gmail.com>wrote:

> I was going to suggest just moving the chunks to
> /etc/http/conf.d/<user_name>.conf
>
> I have a script that takes one argument 'repo name' and generated an entire
> SVN repo. (If you want I will share) You can do a similar thing to building
> a config file for a specific user and then apachectl graceful to reload.
>
>
> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Marc Spitzer <mspitzer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Pete Wright <pete at nomadlogic.org> wrote:
>> > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 04:21:46PM -0400, Marc Spitzer wrote:
>> >> Hi all,
>> >>
>> >> I have a roll out at work for 200+ ipads in the fall, 400 in 2 years,
>> >> and we need to provide remote file storage/access.  I have spoken to
>> >> apple about it and they are recommending webdav.  I was wondering if
>> >> anyone else had any different ideas or product recommendations?
>> >> Currently we are testing with apache/webdav and each user gets his own
>> >>  <location></location> stanza in apache config, its fine for 5-10 but
>> >> will become a bit unwieldy when it grows.
>> >>
>> >
>> > just thinking off the top of my head, but perhaps you could use
>> > webdav+ldap to help scale this out?  haven't looked at docs too closely,
>> > but i'm thinking something along the lines of pulling user auth along
>> > with some webdav attributes from ldap...
>> >
>> >
>>
>> Perhaps I just dont know enough about apache presently and need to
>> read some but here is a sanitized webdav directory config:
>>
>>        <Location "/userid">
>>                #AllowOverride None
>>                Options -Includes  +Indexes
>>                #Order allow,deny
>>                #Allow from all
>>                Order Deny,Allow
>>                Deny from all
>>                AuthBasicProvider ldap
>>                AuthName "pilot project"
>>                AuthzLDAPAuthoritative off
>>                AuthLDAPURL ldap://url_here
>>                AuthType Basic
>>                Require user usrid
>>                satisfy any
>>
>>                Dav on
>>
>>        </Location>
>>
>> While this does work maintaining 2-400 of these chunks is something I
>> would like to dodge if possble.
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> marc
>>
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