[CalendarServer-users] Remote Principal Administration

[Wilfredo Sánchez Vega]

   It's meant to identify the directory that you are using, and can be  
any string.

   It's used to generate GUIDs for records that your directory doesn't  
already provide GUIDs for.

	-wsv


On Jan 19, 2007, at 2:07 PM, Tyler Keating wrote:

> Hello Again,
> Well it's not pretty, since I've never used Python before, but I've  
> got CalendarServer talking to my application's PostgreSQL backend  
> and so far so good.  I still have to do open heart surgery on my  
> application to reflect the new decoupled accounts table, but it will  
> be worth it.  Thanks again for your direction.
>
> So, since I don't know anything about directory services, can you  
> please tell me what the realmName parameter is for and what should I  
> be setting it to for a SQL backend?  Also, could you please explain  
> what the baseGUID is for?  I'm getting the following:  Directory  
> service <SQLDirectoryService '': 'hostname'> has no GUID; generating  
> service GUID from realm name
>
> Sorry for the trouble,
> Tyler
>
>
> On 18-Jan-07, at 4:02 PM, David Reid wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jan 18, 2007, at 1:44 PM, Tyler Keating wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> 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.
>>
>> You should implement an IDirectoryService[1] that talks to the same  
>> backend as your web application.  Alternatively you can write your  
>> web application to talk to one of the existing backends the  
>> calendar server supports.
>>
>> There is currently an XML file[2], and SQL db[2] that is  
>> provisioned initially from an XML File, and support for Apple's  
>> OpenDirectory[4]
>>
>> -David
>>
>> 1) twistedcaldav.directory.idirectory
>> 2) twistedcaldav.directory.xmlfile
>> 3) twistedcaldav.directory.sqldb
>> 4) twistedcaldav.directory.appleopendirectory
>
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