[nycbug-talk] ipad remote storage question

[Edward Capriolo]

That is a good point you can layer mod-auth-ldap and mod-dav. Then you
can use require-user param. you will still have to bake one config
file per user. Again scripting can solve that.

On Wednesday, May 18, 2011, Bjorn Nelson <o_sleep at belovedarctos.com> wrote:
> On 5/18/2011 5:00 PM, Pete Wright 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...
>
>
>
> I would think this sort of thing would be the best way, especially if you can hang it off of an existing ldap.  Something that you won't have to re-implement things like password management or account disabling or enabling if the students transfer in or out mid semester.
>
> -Bjorn
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