In “Document Management System in Word using WebDAV” I explained why I needed to connect Microsoft Word to a WebDAV repository and in “PHP based authentication for mod_dav” I explained how to set up authorisation for mod_dav using a PHP script. What’s left is accessing the WebDAV repository using Word’s Visual Basic. Read more…
To be able to create a Document Management System in Word using WebDAV on Apache webserver, I did some research on mod_dav, an Apache module to provide WebDAV support. It appears that the authaurisation part of mod_dav is limited to “allow all” / “deny all”, which did not quite suite my needs. The solution needed more fine-grained authorisation on a per-directory level. Another problem was that the authentication and authorisation data was in a database. Read more…
A customer I’m currently doing maintenance on their major application for, had an issue come up a couple of weeks ago where not all employees were to access all data any longer. The company deals with other companies and their employees, called members. The issue that came up caused a company wide policy to come in effect that meant that only specific users were to allow members or family of members to be accessed for a certain client company.
The application in question was easily modified since it already had support for authentication, so only authorisation for that specific company had to be added. (No we weren’t allowed to create a generic solution that would allow a reusable authorisation for multiple client companies. But discussing their policies is a whole different matter.) Read more…
