any way to do webdav?

Jerry Shipman jes59 at cornell.edu
Wed Feb 3 23:01:30 UTC 2021


Hello,

Do any of you know of a way that you can do webdav to a web server using shib authentication, without the password going to that server? Maybe there is a specific expensive webdav client that knows how to do SAML (or maybe oauth), or something like that?

(My understanding is that I don't want to use ECP because it would expose the SSO passwords to the webdav server. But I am not sure i'm understanding that correctly.)

We're trying to retire our home-grown kerberos-based Web SSO and move entirely to SAML. 
But we have a significant amount of people who want to use WebDAV for file transfer using our accounts. In order to meet this need without exposing the SSO passwords to the webdav servers, our legacy web SSO system had a feature where you could log in in your web browser to get a token, then paste that token in to the webdav client's password field. The token was basically a session cookie that would last for a few hours.
These are complicating our retirement project, since I don't have a good option to give them. 

I'm hoping one of you knows about a silver bullet that I didn't find yet. Or maybe that my understanding of ECP is incorrect.

Thank you!
Jerry





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