[Dav-linuxfs] Notes about 0.2.4...

[Sean M A. <sea...@gr...>]

Hi all,
	I just downloaded 0.2.4 and I must say things look good with it,
although it seems slow to me.  One note about compiling I noticed is
that on my RH7.1 box w/ 2.4.9-21 kernel I had to use the --with-kernel
option on the configure, otherwise I received errors about not finding
net/scm.h and net/ip.h headers.  I don't know if this is something with
my system or just something that needs to perhaps be updated on the
readme.

	Aside from that, I seem to not be having the proxying issues I ran into
before.  This is a good thing!  Authentication seems to work with or
with out the proxy.

One question I have regards needing to be root to run mount.davfs.  From
my perspective it's no big deal, since I have local root on my machine,
but for a person here who has a managed desktop (and wouldn't have root)
this is an issue.  When trying to run mount.davfs as a normal user, I
get a mount: Operation not permitted.  Our DAV server requires
authentication to maintain integrity of documents in a KM system.  When
the filesystem is mounted as root, all the files/dirs under the mount
point are owned by root and may not be readable by a nonroot user.  I'm
not sure what the logic is behind how linux permissions get assigned to
dav files, but I noticed that all files were not world writable and some
were not world readable.  I'd envision a linux user being about to mount
a dav server to a mount point in their home directory (or something like
that).  So is there a way I can accomplish this?  For instance, I could
have them put a mount command in their .profile or something like that.

Thanks.
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