xDAV and shared namespaces

Ken Murchison murch at fastmail.com
Tue Mar 13 13:09:17 EDT 2018



On 03/13/2018 12:50 PM, Anatoli wrote:
> Ken,
>
> Thanks a lot! After creating the shared folder under the root 
> hierarchy (with imtest -a admin and the command you provided), setting 
> the corresponding ACLs for the users that have to have access to the 
> folder (with cyradm sam) and creating a new connection in each WebDAV 
> client for https://domain.com/dav/drive/shared/, everything worked fine!
>
> I'll try to test the same with CalDAV / CardDAV and report it here.

Its entirely possible that the URL parsing code for CalDAV and CardDAV 
will not resolve to a shared folder.  Let me know.



>
> Regards,
> Anatoli
>
> *From:* Ken Murchison
> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 13, 2018 12:55
> *To:* Info-cyrus
> *Subject:* Re: xDAV and shared namespaces
>
>
>
> On 03/13/2018 11:48 AM, Anatoli wrote:
>> Hi Ken,
>>
>> Thanks for your quick reply. Yes, I'm willing to test it and if 
>> needed I can also apply patches (I build Cyrus from sources).
>>
>> > x CREATE shared (TYPE COLLECTION)
>>
>> What does this command is supposed to do and under what user should I 
>> execute it (I mean imtest -a <user>)? I tried to run it under admin 
>> user (it creates a "shared" folder at the root hierarchy) and under a 
>> normal user that already has a shared folder (in this case the folder 
>> is created under the user hierarchy), but in both cases the folder 
>> stays empty (with only cyrus.header and cyrus.index inside) and is 
>> not visible under a WebDAV client. Am I missing something?
>
> Definitely do this as an admin (e.g. 'cyrus') that DOES NOT have their 
> own user hierarchy.
>
> Its been so long since I wrote and played with the WebDAV module that 
> I forgot how it works.  Try:
>
> x CREATE #drive/shared (TYPE COLLECTION)
>
> Use whatever you have set for the davdriveprefix option and the proper 
> hierarchy ('.' if you have disabled unixhierarchysep)
>
>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Anatoli
>>
>> *From:* Ken Murchison
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 13, 2018 12:18
>> *To:* Info-cyrus
>> *Subject:* Re: xDAV and shared namespaces
>>
>> xDAV hasn't had much development or testing in the shared namespace 
>> and there isn't any tooling to create such mailboxes.
>>
>> If you wanted to do some testing, you'd have to create the mailboxes 
>> by hand and set the mailbox type accordingly.  To do so, you can 
>> connect to the server as an admin using imtest and enter the 
>> following command:
>>
>> x CREATE shared (TYPE COLLECTION)
>>
>> to create a WebDAV collection.  Or set the TYPE to CALENDAR or 
>> ADDRESSBOOK
>>
>>
>> On 03/13/2018 11:08 AM, Anatoli wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I'm experimenting with xDav (CalDAV, CardDAV and WebDAV) in Cyrus 
>>> 3.0.5. All xDAV services in user namespaces work as expected, but I 
>>> can't figure out how to setup them for shared namespaces.
>>>
>>> The most important service for me to setup for shared namespaces is 
>>> WebDAV. I'd like to have a shared folder accessible to multiple 
>>> users based on their ACLs. I know how to setup a shared folder for IMAP:
>>>
>>> cyradm> cm shared1 at domain.com
>>> cyradm> sam shared1 at domain.com user1 at domain.com write
>>>
>>> In the mail client I see the shared1 folder under "shared folders". 
>>> But I can't see it in a WebDAV client. At the server the shared1 
>>> folder doesn't have the autocreated xDAV structure as it normally 
>>> autocreates for individual users, and I don't know how to create it 
>>> manually.
>>>
>>> Does anybody know how to configure WebDAV shared folders? I'm also 
>>> interested in creating shared calendars (CalDAV) and addressbooks 
>>> (CardDAV), but I suppose they are managed the same way as WebDAV.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>> Anatoli
>>>
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