From 881de39b7dba91ced84d495cea4f500e8ef2275d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Bj=C3=B6rn=20Martin?= Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2021 17:09:18 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Add app password auth option Add app password authentication option which seems to be mandatory if an external auth provider is used. --- developer_manual/client_apis/WebDAV/basic.rst | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/developer_manual/client_apis/WebDAV/basic.rst b/developer_manual/client_apis/WebDAV/basic.rst index 83943c879..e0d45c11b 100644 --- a/developer_manual/client_apis/WebDAV/basic.rst +++ b/developer_manual/client_apis/WebDAV/basic.rst @@ -12,7 +12,9 @@ WebDAV basics The base url for all WebDAV operations for a Nextcloud instance is :code:`/remote.php/dav`. -All requests need to provide authentication information, either as a Basic Auth header or by passing a set of valid session cookies. +All requests need to provide authentication information, either as a Basic Auth header or by passing a set of valid session cookies. + +If your Nextcloud installation uses an external auth provider (such as an OIDC server) you may have to create an app password. To do that browse to your user Settings > Security and create one. It will provide a username and password which you can use within the Basic Auth header. Testing requests with curl --------------------------