[Owncloud] Integrating OwnCloud with /home folders

[Otto Kekäläinen]

2013/12/2 Emre Erenoglu <erenoglu at gmail.com>:
> Hi, maybe you can try using webdav access with davfs2 and autofs. Following
> site can give some idea:
>
> http://www.matrix44.net/blog/?p=1048
>
> Alternatively, again with webdav access, you can have dolphin or nautilus
> point to this webdav share, or mount it with fuse with startup script that
> runs at each user logon.
>
> that being said, a sync solution as mentioned with Craig might be the
> best...

Both solutions require that the user's password can be configured in a
config file, otherwise access to OwnCloud data is not possible either
via ocsync or webdav. However I don't know the users passwords, so I
cannot automate this. And anyway setting up 35 different config files
for each user is too much work and it would break immediately when the
user changes their password (which I hope they do at least once in a
while).

Isn't there something that can be done as root server-side to
facilitate this? Manipulate the files directly at file system level in
/var/www/data/$username/files? Or use some root-like account access to
OwnCloud and do there stuff?