Re: public calendars creating howto

Hi ianw,

> Is there are particular approach to the creation of shared calendars
> Do I simply create a folder #calendar under the root directory or 
> under something like staff/#calendar ?
> And them change the permissions to something like
> lrswipkxtecdan9

We've done the former, put them all at the top level. We have a Perl 
script that goes through the staff LDAP database and assigns read or 
write permissions to each authorized user, to update permissions when we 
have staff turnover. An edited excerpt:

my $cyrusConnection = Cyrus::IMAP::Admin->new($cyrusServer);
$cyrusConnection->authenticate(
   -mechanism => 'login',
   -user => $cyrusAdminUser,
   -password => $cyrusAdminPassword
);

print "Getting current ACLs for $folder\n";
my @cyrusFolder = $cyrusConnection->list($folder);
# Who has acls on this folder?
my %currentAcls = $cyrusConnection->listacl($cyrusFolder[0][0]);
# Assign required ACLs.
while (my ($user, $acl) = each %ouAcl)
{
   print "Granting access to $folder for $user\n";
   $cyrusConnection->setacl($folder, $user => $acl);
   delete $currentAcls{$user};
}
# Remove any stray ACLs.
foreach my $user (keys %currentAcls)
{
   print "Removing access to $folder for $user\n";
   $cyrusConnection->deleteacl($folder, $user)
}

Aside: You may be aware of the special incantation needed to create a 
shared calendar, described at 
https://github.com/cyrusimap/cyrus-imapd/issues/2373#issuecomment-415738943; 
if not, it boils down to (quoting):

     You must use an admin account to login to the server and then issue 
commands like these:

|0000 CREATE #calendars (TYPE CALENDAR) 0001 CREATE #addressbooks (TYPE 
ADDRESSBOOK) 0002 CREATE #calendars/Shared (TYPE CALENDAR) 0003 CREATE 
#addressbooks/Shared (TYPE ADDRESSBOOK) |

     Just use . as separator instead of / if using unixhierarchysep:0



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