[Davical-dev] Using external authentication

[Andrew McMillan]

On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 13:17 +0200, Matthias Althaus wrote:
> Hey there,
> 
> I'm currently evaluating the usage of DAViCal for a school server
> system. We've got a fully working intra/internet system with an
> existing user database.
> 
> I've got the authentication based on the data so far to work that I
> can auth through the web page and also by caldav using Sunbird. I'm
> using the UpdateUserFromExternal() function and all seems fine. The
> problem now is that a user doesn't get his own calendar. I played
> around with all the debugging options and the xml response is "need
> privileges: read".
> 
> I tried with another user created through the web interface and the
> problem doesn't exist. Granting this "locale" user a read privilege on
> the (imported) calendar of an "external" one is also working.
> 
> Is there anything I've overseen? UpdateUserFromExternal looks fine in
> my eyes and seems to do all the needed stuff. I couldn't find a
> usefull clue in the log yet.

Hi Matthias,

There is one recent commit that fixed an error someone else was seeing,
so perhaps it applies to you also:

http://repo.or.cz/w/awl.git/commit/2d1ec56fcced9fb76ba2a516486d1d13c26f8e72



Also, if you want to debug it I recommend enabling:

$c->dbg['querystring'] = 1;

in your configuration, so you can see the database queries in your
Apache error log.  If one of these seems like it should return 1 row but
it is returning 0 rows, then that would be a big clue as to what might
be going wrong.

If you see a 'QF:' in your apache error log that is a query which is
failing, and almost certainly a bug.

Side-by-side comparison of the usr, principal and collection rows for
the working & non-working users would help, too.

Cheers,
					Andrew.

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