[CalendarServer-users] Getting a stable version of Calendar Server?

[Cyrus Daboo]

Hi Scott,

--On August 29, 2009 1:59:22 PM -0700 Scott Buchanan <dscottbuch at mac.com> 
wrote:

> OK.  I tracked this down to a permissions issue on /var/run/caldavd and
> the files calendaruserproxy.sqlite & resourceinfo.sqlite.  By adding
> group rw permissions to this directory and these files the following
> error no longer occurs and all seems to be working.  I have no idea what
> security risk this presents as I currently don't understand the security
> model of CalendarServer so I don't know if this is a legitimate fix or
> not.
>
> Any input appreciated.

First off in the new code we put those .sqlite files in a new location by 
default: /Library/CalendarServer/Data/. It is best not to use /var/run/ for 
those as they are "persistent" database files and should not be 
automatically purged (as might happen to something in /var/run).

On permissions, the best thing is to create a "calendar" user and group for 
your system, and change the caldavd.plist to use those. Ensure that 
/Library/CalendarServer's contents have read-write for that user and group. 
You will need to start the server as the admin user but it will drop 
privileges to the user and group you specify.

-- 
Cyrus Daboo