[CalendarServer-users] Remote Principal Administration

[Tyler Keating]

[Accidentally sent this to Cyrus rather than to the list.  Resending  
the next day.]

Thank you very much (to David as well),

I didn't realize I could create my own directory service and it would  
definitely simplify account management a lot.  I just need to figure  
out on my side whether I want the server so tightly coupled to my  
application.  I'm also on a different project to implement a reusable  
Calendar "Resource" and my initial thoughts were that many  
applications would use a single server for all their scheduling  
needs, but I hadn't addressed also using a single directory service,  
which both simplifies and complicates the matter.  I'll think about  
it...

Thanks again,
Tyler


On 18-Jan-07, at 3:59 PM, Cyrus Daboo wrote:

> Hi Tyler,
>
> --On January 18, 2007 3:44:23 PM -0600 Tyler Keating  
> <tylerkeating at mac.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm currently building a web application that will use Calendar  
>> Server
>> and I have one important question.  What is the best way to create
>> principal accounts on Darwin Calendar Server to match the member  
>> accounts
>> of my web application?  I'm open to any suggestions.
>>
>> I do know that Cosmo Calendar Server has a Cosmo Management  
>> Protocol for
>> remote administration, is there something similar for Darwin that  
>> I've
>> missed?
>
> The latest calendar server code has a generic directory module that  
> can be used to populate accounts. There are several different  
> implementations of this, including an xml file based variant, and  
> open directory variant, and an SQL database variant. If your web  
> app uses a directory or database of some form for its users and you  
> can access that from "outside" then you could write your own  
> calendar server directory implementation to get user accounts  
> directly from there.
>
> -- 
> Cyrus Daboo
>