Ubuntu Manpage: davfs2.conf - Configuration file for mount.davfs

NAME

       davfs2.conf - Configuration file for mount.davfs

DESCRIPTION

       There  is  a system wide configuration file /etc/davfs2/davfs2.conf and user configuration
       files ~/.davfs2/davfs2.conf. When mount.davfs is invoked by root,  only  the  system  wide
       configuration  file is read. When invoked by an ordinary user, the user configuration file
       is read in addition. Settings from the user configuration file will take  precedence  over
       the system wide configuration.

       The  configuration  file  consists of lines where each line contains a keyword value pair.
       Keyword and value are seperated by spaces and/or tabs.

       The file may contain sections that are for one specific mount point only.  Such a  section
       starts  with  a  line,  that  contains the full path of the mount point enclosed in square
       brackets. The section ends at the start of the next section or the end  of  file.  Options
       that  shall  apply to all mounted file system must come before the first sections. Options
       given in a mount specific section will have precedence.

EXAMPLE

       kernel_fs coda
       proxy     foo.bar:8080
       use_locks 0
       [/media/dav]
       use_locks 1
       [/home/otto/mywebspace]
       gui_optimize 1

       All mounted davfs2 file systems will use  the  coda  kernel  file  system  and  the  proxy
       foo.bar.  All  davfs2  file  systems  expect /media/dav will disable the use of the locks.
       /home/otto/mywebspace will use the gui_optimize option.

GENERAL SYNTAX RULES

       Lines that only contain spaces and tabs (empty lines) are ignored.

       # indicates a comment. The rest of the line is ignored.

       \ is the escape character.

       "" is used for quotation.

       If a value contains one of the special characters space, tab, #, \, or ",  this  character
       must  be  escaped  by  a  preceding  \. Use ’\ ’ instead of ’ ’, ’\#’ instead of ’#’, ’\\’
       instead of ’\’ and ’\"’ instead of ’"’.

       Values containing spaces, tabs or # may instead be enclosed in double quotes.  But " and ’
       must  be  escaped even within double quotes. If the starting line of a section is enclosed
       in double quotes, the square brakets must be within  the  quotes  (like  "[/home/otto/with
       space]").

       Boolean option values (yes/no) must be given as numerical value.  0 for no, 1 for yes.

AVAILABLE CONFIGURATION OPTIONS

General Options

       dav_user
              When  invoked  by root the mount.davfs daemon will run as this user.  Value must be
              given as name, not as numerical id.
              Default: davfs2
              Only allowed in the system wide configuration file.

       dav_group
              The group of the running mount.davfs daemon. Ordinary users must be member of  this
              group  in order to mount a davfs2 file system.  Value must be given as name, not as
              numerical id.
              Default: davfs2
              Only allowed in the system wide configuration file.

       kernel_fs
              Which kernel file system to  use,  to  integrate  into  the  virtual  file  system.
              Possible values are fuse and coda.
              Default: fuse

       buf_size
              Size in KiByte of the buffer used to communicate with the kernel file system.  Only
              usefull with fuse, where read and write operations may profit from a larger buffer.
              Default: 16

WebDAV Related Options

use_proxy
Whether to use a proxy to connect to the WebDAV server. 0 = no, 1 = yes. If no
proxy is defined in the configration file or the environment variables https_proxy,
http_proxy and all_proxy, this option has no effect.
Default: 1
Only allowed in the system wide configuration file.

proxy Name of the proxy. The name must be the fully qualified domain name (no scheme). If
the proxy port differs from the default of 8080, it must be appended, seperated by
a colon. Examples: foo.bar:1704 or foo.bar
Only allowed in the system wide configuration file.

trust_ca_cert
Name of a certificate file in PEM format. The name of the file may be given as
absolute path or as file name only. In the latter case the directories
~/.davfs2/certs and /etc/davfs2/certs will be searched.
This option is useful when the certificate presented by the server cannot be
verified using the system's data base of trusted certificate authorities (CA). The
certificate file must contain the self-signed certificate of the top level CA in
the chain of trust. It may be a self-signed server certificate (but see also
trust_server_cert). With this option the system's CA data base is ignored.
Note: Even if the server's certificate is trusted that does not mean it is
accepted. Additionally the certificate's date must be valid and either the
CommonName or the SubjectAltName must match the host name of the server.

servercert
Same as trust_ca_cert but badly named.
Deprecated

trust_server_cert
Name of a certificate file in PEM format. The name of the file may be given as
absolute path or as file name only. In the latter case the directories
~/.davfs2/certs and /etc/davfs2/certs will be searched.
Usefull when the server's certificate can't be verified or is even invalid, but you
know that you can trust this certificate. When the server presents a certificate
that is exactly equal to this one and when the server is able to authenticate
against the public key contained in this certificate the connection will be
established.
This is the preferred option for self signed server certificates.
No other ways to verify the certificate will be tried and the certificate will not
be checked for validity.

clientcert
Name of a certificate in PKCS#12 format that will be used to authenticate with the
server. The name of the file may be given as absolute path or as file name only. In
the latter case the directories ~/.davfs2/certs/private and
/etc/davfs2/certs/private will be searched.

secrets
Name of a file that holds the credentials for servers and the proxy, and passwords
to decrypt the client certificate. The name must be an absolute path. The file must
be read and writable by the owner only (mode 600).
Default: ~/.davfs2/secrets
Only allowed in the user configuration file. The system wide secrets file is
allways /etc/davfs2/secrets.

ask_auth
Ask the user interactively for credentials and passwords if not found in the
secretsfile. Ask the user if a servercert cannot be verified. 0 = no, 1 = yes.
Default: 1

use_locks
Whether to lock files on the server when they are opened for writing. 0 = no, 1 =
yes.
Default: 1

lock_owner
A string send to the server to identify the owner of a lock. If a WebDAV resource
is used at the same time by different clients using the same credentials, different
values for lock_owner should be choosen.
Default: the username from the credentials

lock_timeout
How long in seconds locks should be valid, before the server removes them. The
server may ignore this and set its own timeout value.
Default: 1800

lock_refresh
That many seconds before the lock times out, mount.davfs will try to refresh the
lock. The value should be substantially greater than delay_upload.
Default: 60

use_expect100
To avoid uploading big files that will be refused by the server, mount.davfs uses
the header expect: 100-continue to get the o.k. from the server before uploading.
Not all servers understand this. 0 = no, 1 = yes.
Default: 0

if_match_bug
Some servers do not handle If-Match and If-None-Match-headers correctly. This
otion tells mount.davfs to use HEAD instead of thes headers. 0 = no, 1 = yes.
Default: 0

drop_weak_etags
Popular servers send a weak etag whenever they are not able to calculate a strong
one. This weak etag will never be valid, but after one second it is silently turned
into a strong, valid etag. With this flag set to 1, mount.davfs will never use this
weak etags. If the flag is 0, the weakness indicator will be removed and the etag
is assumed to be strong. There is some danger of the Lost-Update-Problem with this.
But it is minimized when using locks.
You should turn this on, when you can't use locks and there is the danger of
concurrent access to the same resource. In this case the etag is not used at all
and the resource cannot be cached.
0 = no, 1 = yes.
Default: 0

n_cookies
Some servers will only work when they are allowed to set a cookie and this cookie
is returned in subsequent requests. This option sets the number of cookies you are
willing to accept and include in subsequent requests. davfs2 will only care for the
name and the value of the cookie and ignore all of the possible attributes.
Default: 0

precheck
If option if_match_bug is set: use HEAD-requests to check for existence or
modification of a file to avoid unintended overwriting what somebody else changed.
Has no effect if option if_match_bug is 0. You should only set it 0, if there is no
concurrent access to the server. 0 = no, 1 = yes.
Default: 1

ignore_dav_header
Some servers send wrong information about their capabilities in the DAV-header. In
this case the header should be ignored.
Default: 0

use_compression
Use gzip-compression for downloading files, if supported by the server. Uploads
will still be uncompressed.
Default: 0

min_propset
Some servers are reported to significantly slow down when the Etag and Last-
Modified properties are requested. This option will reduce the set of WebDAV-
properties requested from the server to the minimal set. Don't use it if your file
system is used for reading and writing. Without Etag or Last-Modified davfs2 will
not be able to check for changes on the server which may result in unnecessary
downloads and lost updates. This option will also effectively disable caching of
files because files in the cache can't be reused.
Default: 0

follow_redirect
If the server redirects a GET-request to a different resource (maybe on a different
server) then follow this redirection.
Currently there are some restrictions: all redirects are treated as temporary
redirects; if the new server requires authentication then the same credentials are
use as for the original server; if the connection is over TLS the server
certificate will be checked against the trusted CAs known by the system; user
configured server certificates and client certificates are not used for the new
server.
Default: 0

server_charset
When extracting file names from the path component of the URL, mount.davfs will
assume they are encoded using this character set and translate file names to the
local character set. This is not about encoding of file contents and not about HTTP
escaping rules.
There is no means in HTTP to know the character encoding of the path component.
There may be even different encodings within the same path, as the encoding of file
names is often defined by the clients that created them. Nowadays it is best to
use only UTF-8 encoding and to do no conversion. If you are not sure that all
clients understand UTF-8, restrict file names to pure us-ascii. Never use
characters in file names, that may have a special function on some operating
systems (like /, : and \).
Default: no character set conversion

connect_timeout
When creating a TCP connection to the server mount.davfs will wait that many
seconds for an answer before assuming an error. If a value of '0' is used then no
explicit timeout handling is set and the connect call will only timeout as dictated
by the TCP stack.
This parameter only takes effect if the version of neon in use (neon version >
0.26) and the OS support non-blocking I/O.
Default: 10

read_timeout
How long in seconds mount.davfs will wait for an answer from the server before
assuming an error.
Default: 30

retry When mount.davfs can not reach the server it will try again after retry seconds.
For subsequent retries the interval will be increased up to max_retry seconds.
Default: 30

max_retry
Maximum value of the retry interval.
Default: 300

max_upload_attempts
When uploading a changed file fails temporarily mount.davfs will retry with
increasing intervals, but not more often than this.
With a bad connection this will cause additional traffic. To reduce traffic caused
by unsuccessful attempts option use_expect100 can be set. But please test it. Most
proxies and some servers don't support this header.
Default: 15

add_header
Your server might expect special headers to do what you want. Different from other
options, this one takes two values: the name of the header and its value. Some
ASP-backends to IIS seem to require the Microsoft specific header "Translate: F".
You can add it like this:
add_header Translate F
mount.davfs will add header "Translate: F" on all requests.
This option is cumulative. You can enter more than one add_header option and all of
them will be added. Also add_header options from /etc/davfs2/davfs2.conf and
~/.davfs2/davfs2.conf are merged.

Cache Related Options

backup_dir
Each mounted davfs2 file system has a directory to store backups of files that
could not be stored back to the server. This sets the name of this directory. You
should regularly check this directory.
Default: lost+found

cache_dir
The directory where mount.davfs will store cached files. For every mount point a
subdirectory will be created.
In the systemwide configuration file this will set the system wide cache, used by
root. In a users configuration file it will set the cache used by this user.
Defaults: /var/cache/davfs2 and ~/.davfs2/cache

cache_size
The amount of disk space in MiByte that may be used. mount.davfs will always take
enough space to cache open files, ignoring this value if necessary.
Default: 50

table_size
mount.davfs maintains a hash table with an entry for each known file or directory.
This gives the number of entries in this table. For large file systems (more than
some hundreds of files) increasing this number may speed up file operations. The
value should be a power of 2.
Default: 1024

dir_refresh
After mount.davfs has got information about files in a directory it considers it
valid for this time in seconds. Note: This does not affect opening of files and
reading a directory by an application.
Default: 60

file_refresh
When a file or directory is opened by an application, mount.davfs will first check
the server for a newer version. But some applications do open calls on the same
file in short sequence. To avoid unecessary traffic mount.davfs will wait that many
seconds before it send a new request for the same information.
Default: 1

delay_upload
When a file that has been changed is closed, mount.davfs will wait that many
seconds before it will upload it to the server. This will avoid uploading of
temporary files that will be removed immediately after closing. If you need the
files to appear on the server immediately after closing, set this option to 0.
Default: 10

gui_optimize
When a file is opened, mount.davfs will have to check the server whether there is a
newer version. Graphical User Interfaces tend to open just any file, slowing down
things dramatically for large directories. With this option mount.davfs will try
to get this information from all files in a directory with one PROPFIND request. 0
= no, 1 = yes.
Default: 0

minimize_mem
davfs2 holds information about files and directories in the working memory. It will
stay there as long as the file system is mounted and the file is not deleted. By
this memory usage by davfs2 will grow over time and may slow down davfs2. With this
option set to 1 davfs2 will regularly clean the memory from information that has
not be used for some time. 0 = no, 1 = yes.
Warning: Most file attributes are only maintained locally because there is no
corresponding WebDAV property. So if users change attributes (owner, group, access
bits) locally this changes will be lost and attribute values will be reset to the
default values.
Default: 0

Debugging Options

debug Send debug messages to the syslog daemon. The value tells what kind of information
shall be logged. The messages are send with facility LOG_DAEMON and priority
LOG_DEBUG. It depends from the configuration of the syslog daemon where the
messages will go (propably /var/log/messages, /var/log/syslog or
/var/log/daemon.log). Whether HTTP related debug messages are available depends on
your neon library.
Unlike other options, this option is cumulative. If there are several debug entries
with different values, all of them will be applied. Also debug options from
/etc/davfs2/davfs2.conf and ~/.davfs2/davfs2.conf are merged.
Note: Debug messages let the log-files grow quickly. Never use this option in
normal operation of mount.davfs.
Default: no debugging messages

Recognized values:

config Command line and configuration options.

kernel Upcalls from the kernel file system.

cache Cache operations like adding and removing nodes.

http HTTP headers.

xml Parsing of the XML-body of WebDAV-requests.

httpauth
Negotiation of authentication.

locks Information about locks.

ssl TLS/SSL related stuff like certificates.

httpbody
Complete body of HTTP-responses.

secrets
Also print confidential information, which is usually omitted or obscured.

most Includes config, kernel, cache and http.

AUTHORS

       This man page was written by by Werner Baumann <werner.baumann@onlinehome.de>.

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