January 2012 - calendarserver-users

encrypted passwords in accounts.xml
by Matthew Morgan 27 Jan '12

27 Jan '12

Is it possible to encrypt the passwords in accounts.xml and still use HTTP authentication, similar to having an encrypted password in an apache .htaccess file?

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Not a calendar resource?
by martin f krafft 19 Jan '12

19 Jan '12

Hello, I am experimenting with calendarserver 2.4 on Debian stable. After failures to connect from both, Sunbird and CalDAV-Sync for Android, I started investigating what was going on. The CalDAV-Sync author noted, that the response for /calendars/__uids__/d817aaec-7d24-5b38-bc2f-6369da72cdd9/calendar/ does not include something like <calendar xmlns='urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:caldav'/> and is thus not a valid calendar resource. Here is the URI: http://77.109.139.85:8008/calendars/users/test/calendar/ or http://77.109.139.85:8008/calendars/__uids__/d817aaec-7d24-5b38-bc2f-6369da… User/password: test/test I notice the four .ics files in there as having been created by Sunbird, but Sunbird cannot display them, and CalDAV-Sync cannot set up this resource. Sunbird's error console also says that this is not a CalDAV resource. If I use the credentials admin/admin and the appropriate URIs, then it all seems to work. Did I mess something up? I cannot be expected to make all users admins, can I? How is admin access determined anyway? The accounts.xml entries look identical, so is this in sudoers.plist? <dict> <key>username</key> <string>superuser</string> <key>password</key> <string>superuser</string> </dict> How does this work? Or is the name 'admin' hardcoded? Thanks, -- martin | http://madduck.net/ | http://two.sentenc.es/ a friend is someone with whom you can dare to be yourself spamtraps: madduck.bogus(a)madduck.net

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Transitioning caldavd.plist from 2.4 to 3.1?
by Chris Cleeland 13 Jan '12

13 Jan '12

I'm trying to migrate from 2.4 to 3.1. The 2.4 is the debian package install. It's been an interesting battle hampered by things like "run -I" not working, "run -i" not getting paths correct, and "run" in general not pulling dependencies that it needed to pull, but I'm at the point where it finally starts up. Now, it just sits there waiting for ServerRoot to exist. There was no such thing as ServerRoot in 2.4; it just had DataRoot and DocumentRoot. However, 3.1 has ServerRoot, DataRoot, DocumentRoot, ConfigRoot, RunRoot and LogRoot. I can probably guess at getting these all correct, but I'm wondering if maybe there's some documentation or something written up regarding the changes to caldavd.plist that I'm missing? Or maybe some general documentation for migrating from version to version? Thanks! --- Chris Cleeland

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Query: Commercial Use of Calendar and Contacts Server
by Sougata Sen 08 Jan '12

08 Jan '12

Hi All, We are looking at a calendar and contacts server side framework which can serve multiple client applications including iPad and mobile devices. We are looking for the following capabilities: 1. iCalendar and CalDav should be supported. 2. CardDav or any other standard protocol should be supported for Address Book. 3. Should be extendible to integrate with our system(mapping our application metadata to events and contacts). 4. Privately Hosted for commercial use in our Client's Environment(Open source version). 5. API layer or web services to manage events and contacts. 6. Does it also provide User management capabilities? Can we use Calendar and Contacts server for the above mentioned requirements? Thanks & Regards, Sougata.

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CalendarServer trunk's bundled-memcached build fails to find libevent
by crowe＠mailhaven.com 07 Jan '12

07 Jan '12

hi, i'm taking a 1st shot at building CalendarServer on my linux/64 box. i've co'd from trunk, cd /usr/local/src/CalendarServer/CalendarServer svn info | egrep "UUID|Revision" Repository UUID: e27351fd-9f3e-4f54-a53b-843176b1656c Revision: 8488 then, per README, ./run -s ... Checking MD5 sum for libevent... Unpacking libevent from cache... libevent-1.4.13-stable/ ... Building libevent... ... Libraries have been installed in: /usr/local/src/CalendarServer/libevent-1.4.13-stable/_root/lib64 ... Building memcached... ... checking for libevent directory... configure: error: libevent is required. You can get it from http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/ If it's already installed, specify its path using --with-libevent=/dir/ iiuc, "./run" is supposed to gather prereqs. do i need to install libevent prior to 1st exec of "./run" to satisfy the bundled-memcached build? or pass some additional flags to ./run itself? crowe

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Darwin Quick Start - Help on Gentoo Linux
by John L. Poole 06 Jan '12

06 Jan '12

Greetings I attempted to install the Darwin Calendar Server on a Gentoo based laptop and could not get the server to start up. I followed the instructions at: http://trac.calendarserver.org/wiki/QuickStart I've documented my install session and pasted the results online (30 day expiration) as follows: install session: http://pastebin.com/DM6T2FpA STDERR during "./run -s": http://pastebin.com/dSNUMF1H I went off the install script after completing it and seeing hints that running as root may have caused a problem - postgres balks when run as root. So, I created a user "darwinc" and changed the permissions on the tree to darwinc and attempted to launch the server... again, there seemed to be problems, most likely with postgres. It seems the Quick Start instructions ought to specify what the user account should be for a given state, e.g. "root" for the install", and then a special user to launch. Or, if it is intended that the service run as root, then specify so. The lack of user specification leaves me wondering if a fix is to try and create an account in postgres or modify the install scripts. The Quick Install instructions seem very concise and I'm willing to try some suggestions to get it to work. Here's my system: darwinc@themis /usr/local/src/CalendarServer/CalendarServer $ uname -a Linux themis 2.6.39-gentoo-r3 #1 SMP Sat Sep 17 08:58:44 PDT 2011 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU M 460 @ 2.53GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux darwinc@themis /usr/local/src/CalendarServer/CalendarServer $ Any suggestions on what I should tweak or try? - John Poole

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