diff --git a/pkgs/tools/filesystems/davfs2/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/filesystems/davfs2/default.nix
index 8cc212deee47..ce4421f9ca7f 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/filesystems/davfs2/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/filesystems/davfs2/default.nix
@@ -1,16 +1,21 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, neon, zlib }:
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, neon, zlib, noDavsUser ? false}:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "davfs2-1.4.5";
+  name = "davfs2-1.4.7";
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "mirror://savannah/davfs2/${name}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "1pkl2braggp2qg4c68dwfv399l9jz7cvi7gkm4xbj6mgvl0cxw18";
+    sha256 = "0i7hrwlfzisb4l2mza1kjj9q9xxixggjplsjm339zl7828mfxh2h";
   };
 
+  prePatch = stdenv.lib.optional noDavsUser ''
+    echo "dav_user root" >> etc/davfs2.conf
+    echo "dav_group root" >> etc/davfs2.conf
+  '';
+
   buildInputs = [ neon zlib ];
-  
-  patches = [ ./davfs2-install.patch ./isdir.patch ]; 
+
+  patches = [ ./davfs2-install.patch ./isdir.patch ];
 
   meta = {
     longDescription = "Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV), an extension to the HTTP-protocol, allows authoring of resources on a remote web server. davfs2 provides the ability to access such resources like a typical filesystem, allowing for use by standard applications with no built-in support for WebDAV.";