How does DAV get the username and password from Apache for individual users?
The same way it restricts access to any other document served by Apache — through standard Apache authentication such as .htaccess files. mod_dav has no built-in authentication, it doesn’t need any — other Apache modules handle all of that (including SSL encryption if you want it). Note that Apache auth (and hence mod_dav) has nothing to do with your standard Unix users and passwords in /etc/passwd — this seems to be a common misconception. —Brendan Quinn (brendan[at]clueful.com.
The same way it restricts access to any other document served by Apache — through standard Apache authentication such as .htaccess files. mod_dav has no built-in authentication, it doesn’t need any — other Apache modules handle all of that (including SSL encryption if you want it). Note that Apache auth (and hence mod_dav) has nothing to do with your standard Unix users and passwords in /etc/passwd — this seems to be a common misconception.
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