Mount webdav in ubuntu 12.04 as regular user

If you want to connect to a remote webdav as a regular user then:

• Install the package
• sudo apt-get install davfs2
• Alter the system like stated here
• sudo chmod u+s /usr/sbin/mount.davfs
• In /etc/fstab
• https://myremoteserver/home/user/ /media/mount_point davfs user,noauto 0 0
• sudo usermod -a -G davfs2 user
• Then you can 'mount [mount-point]'

Remember the webdav username and password

Alter the file /etc/davfs2/secrets and put a line in there like

• https://myremoteserver/home/user/ username password