Specifications

176 Appendix B Open Directory Password Server Authentication Methods
WebDAV-Digest Password Validation
WebDAV-Digest handles Digest-MD5 password validation for the WebDAV protocol,
which is used to authenticate access to an iDisk. You should keep WebDAV-Digest
enabled so that users can mount iDisks and other WebDAV servers in the Finder.
WebDAV-Digest encodes passwords when they are sent over the network, and stores
them in a scrambled form on the server. It offers good security during network
transmission. A malicious user might be able to obtain passwords by gaining access to
the server and decoding the password file, although doing this would be very difficult.
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