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#14 Re: WebDAV on Apache2 Posted by Anonymous (72.140.xx.xx) on Tue 15 Nov 2005 at 13:15 There is no way to do this ... and I doubt that it will come in apache 2.1. Apache SuExec is only for CGI. Everything else runs as a single user. It's a *nix problem really. Any solution requires that you run Apache as root. Apparently there was a version of apache which would fork children running as different users (so main server has to run as root) but it was abandoned. I have thought of a workaround. It is quite straightforward to write an AuthN/AuthZ pair (you can find examples in perl on the net). The AuthN module can call a hook that you write. In that script make a system call using 'sudo' to chown your webdav-accessible files to the apache user. You need to add a logout script somewhere (a CGI with a button on a web page) which runs another 'sudo' call to chown everything back to you. Set up 'sudoers' to allow these scripts to be run by the webuser without a password. Ugly but ...

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