[nycbug-talk] ipad remote storage question

Marc Spitzer mspitzer at gmail.com
Wed May 18 18:06:05 EDT 2011


On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Chris Snyder <chsnyder at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I don't know of any drop-in ways to do this, although it would be a great
> open source project.
> When I had to do something similar a couple years ago, I used a script to
> dynamically create the directories and write an .htaccess file to each of
> them. It seemed better than having a monolithic config, if for no other
> reason than I didn't want to have to restart the server with each change.
> Same script modified an .htpasswd file, adding the username and password for
> the user. I like the LDAP approach better, though, since you probably
> already have a directory of users.
>

unfortunately the .htaccess idea wont work, it would go in their home
dirs and they would muck with it.

thanks,

marc
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