Custom physical root path per user

s1rd4v3 commented 5 years ago

Hi Guys,

i'm currently trying to marry Featherjs with your powerfull webdav-server. I already managed to use the feathers authentication system. but now i'm a little stuck with setting up a custom webdav root folder per user. What i need:

User	Physical File System	Webdav Folder
User A	myAppPath/public/uploads/userA	/
User B	myAppPath/public/uploads/userB	/

What i've tried so far:

used .setFileSystem to map the webdavs root '/' to the PhysicalFileSystem path of 'myAppPath/public/uploads
added a sub trees folder for each user dynamically (but they are only virtual)
played around with privilegeManager.setRights() without luck

The aim is, that the user that logs in, directly sees his main folder in the webdav root and doesn't have access to folders/files of other users at all.

btimby commented 4 years ago

A bit late, but I did a similar thing by implementing my own FileSystem class. This way you can look up the user's home directory and do all operations relative to that. I store user information in a cache so that multiple requests can reuse my fs state.

trmaphi commented 4 years ago

@btimby, did the Authentication class run every request? Where did you implement cache, in Authentication, or FileSystem?

btimby commented 4 years ago

@trmaphi I built a cache of user information attached to the filesystem, keyed by the basic auth header.

trmaphi commented 4 years ago

@btimby I far as I tested, I actually have to use https://github.com/OpenMarshal/npm-WebDAV-Server/pull/80 to get such as user info from context or did I miss something 😓.

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Custom physical root path per user #58