mounting webdav as user (no sudo)

I was able to use wdfs to make it work as a non priv. user:

 wdfs <dav url> <mount point>

To unmount

fusermount -u <mount point>

wdfs is from here and uses fuse. I use Archlinux and this AUR package worked fine.

But current state of wdfs is unclear, there is a kind-of-fork lurking at gihub as well.

As a starter answer.. I would suggest the following.

1) sshfs doesn't require access to the /etc/fstab, so if you can map your webdav users onto linux users with similar file structure, then that is a simple alternative.

Then you can use non-root syntax like this to mount within your local home directory;

sshfs -o ControlPath=none -o workaround=rename -o idmap=user \
-o nonempty -o reconnect -o transform_symlinks -o follow_symlinks"   \
[email protected]:/ $HOME/mnt/my.ssh.server.com

2) gvfs/gio - Depending on your distro, /usr/libexec/gvfsd-dav might be an option, which should allow an alternative control syntax to mount the webdav filesystem under ~/.gvfs/

However the documentation is pretty rubbish, and I've only made a limited test of its functionality like so;

As root;

sudo yum install gvfs-fuse.x86_64

then as a user;

$ gvfs-mount dav://my.dav.server.hostname.com/projects/
Enter password for Authorization Realm
User: my.dav.username
Password: XXXXXX

$ cd ~/.gvfs/WebDAV\ on\ my.dav.server.hostname.com/

$ ls 
proj1
proj2
proj3
...
etc