Davfs2 wrapper to mount SharePoint filesystems
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Davpoint - Davfs2 wrapper to mount SharePoint filesystems
Davpoint is a wrapper for the Davfs2 tool. It allows to mount remote SharePoint filesystems that require cookie-based authentication.
Rationale
Although SharePoint services are available through the standard WebDAV
protocol, they may require the client to provide an authentication token
in the HTTP header in addition to the standard username and password.
The WebDAV client for Linux davfs2
does not directly support this
mode of authentication, but it does allow to set any arbitrary cookie in
its configuration file and its developer has
suggested to
“create some start script to automate” the retrieval of the
authentication token.
Davpoint provides precisely such a script. Given a little extra
configuration (see below), it will automatically authenticate a user to
a SharePoint service, get the authentication token, then call davfs2
(through the standard mount (8)
command) with the required
configuration options to mount the SharePoint filesystem.
Configuration & Usage
Davpoint requires the WebDAV resource and its intended mount point to be
listed in the /etc/fstab
file. The username and password must also
appear in Davfs2’s “secrets” file (either /etc/davfs2/secrets
or
~/.davfs2/secrets
), according to Davfs2’s documentation.
In addition, Davpoint needs a dedicated configuration file, which it
expects in ~/.davfs2/sharepoint.conf
by default. This file uses the
.ini format, where each section represents a SharePoint resource.
Each section must contain at least two options: endpoint
, which is
the WebDAV resource to mount, and mountpoint
, which is the location
on the local filesystem where the resource should be mounted. The values
must match what is configured in the /etc/fstab
file. All other
options will be passed verbatim to Davfs2.
Importantly, the main Davfs2 configuration file
(/etc/davfs2/davfs2.conf
or ~/.davfs2/davfs2.conf
) is ignored
when Davfs2 is called by Davpoint. Any Davfs2 options needed for a given
SharePoint resource must be specified in the sharepoint.conf
file
instead of the davfs2.conf
file.
Here is an example of a ~/.davfs2/sharepoint.conf
file:
[example]
endpoint: https://example.com/personal/alice_example_com/Documents
mountpoint: /home/alice/example
use_locks: 0
With such a configuration, the resource may be mounted by the following command:
$ davpoint example
Unmounting the resource is done as usual with the standard umount (8)
command.
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Davpoint is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 3 or higher. The full license is included in the COPYING file of the source distribution.
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