[CalendarServer-users] Calendar ACLs

[tarjei]

Cyrus Daboo wrote:
> Hi Darren,
>
> --On October 19, 2007 2:33:45 PM -0500 Darren Hildebrand
> <dhildebrand at franticfilms.com> wrote:
>
>> I asked about this once before and never got a response, so I'm just
>> wondering if there's been any progress in the area of calendar ACLs.
>>
>> I'm trying to set up a calendar server with group calendars to which
>> most
>> people will have read only access, and a few key people will have write
>> access as well. Is there currently a way to set up a permission scheme
>> like this? From my research, I read that ACL support is implemented in
>> the server, but that no clients exist to take advantage of this. Is this
>> still the case? If so, is there a way to manually change ACLs from the
>> server?
>
> WebDAV ACL is fully supported on the server. We currently have no
> tools of our own to allow manipulation of the ACLs either through
> WebDAV or directly via the local properties database.
>
> There are few, if any, clients that supprot ACL management directly.
> Mulberry (<http://www.mulberrymail.com>) is one of those.
>
> Alternatively if you know enought about the protocol, you can manually
> execute the WebDAV ACL method against the server to set ACLs. It
> should be possible to handcraft the ACL request headers and body and
> then send those via telnet to the server to set ACLs.
>
> Obviously we would like to have a better way to manage ACLs than this.
> The best option is something that uses the WebDAV ACL method to
> manipulate the ACLs rather than trying to change data in the server's
> repository directly. It ought to be possible to put together a basic
> script to do that.
As a sidenote, have you found/created a Python CalDAV library for
manipulating the calendar server?

Regards,
Tarjei