Bug 231068

Summary:	WebDAV not usable with Nautilus if files/directories on the webserver have "sophisticated" access control
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Armijn Hemel <armijn>
Component:	nautilus	Assignee:	Tomáš Bžatek <tbzatek>
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Description Armijn Hemel 2007-03-05 22:14:31 UTC

Description of problem:

I have a webserver (CentOS 4.4, latest patches, mod_dav_svn-1.4.3-0.1.el4.rf,
httpd-2.0.59-1.el4s1.5.el4.centos)and have WebDAV enabled. Everything works
fine, with HTTP basic authentication, unless there are folders/directories which
have different ownership than the user that is connecting. For example:

/
/user1
/user2

The / directory is viewable by any user, the "user1" directory is owned by
"user1" (HTTP basic authentication, and "Require user" in the Apache config) and
the directory "user2" is owned by "user2". Nautilus does not like it and will
start doing weird stuff.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:

Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set up a webserver with Apache
2. Enable DAV with HTTP basic auth
3. create two users
4. require user1 for 1 directory, require user2 for another directory
5. connect, browse, try to enter a directory, which is owned by another user
than the connecting user
  
Actual results:

Nautilus fails to enter the directory, prompts for a password for the current
user, which is clearly wrong, since it should try to connect as the owner of the
file/directory.

Expected results:

I don't know what the correct behaviour should be, but I think Nautilus should
at least give me the option to connect as a different user. cadaver does this
for example, by prompting for a different user name.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Armijn Hemel 2007-03-05 22:15:24 UTC

I forgot to add: nautilus-2.16.2-7.fc6, but it has plagued me for a bit longer.

Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2008-04-04 06:28:07 UTC

Fedora apologizes that these issues have not been resolved yet. We're
sorry it's taken so long for your bug to be properly triaged and acted
on. We appreciate the time you took to report this issue and want to
make sure no important bugs slip through the cracks.

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Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2008-05-06 19:19:26 UTC

This bug is open for a Fedora version that is no longer maintained and
will not be fixed by Fedora. Therefore we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of
Fedora please feel free to reopen thus bug against that version.

Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.