Groups for shared folders

[Gunnar Wrobel]

Quoting Alex <lbf at dragonrising.com>:

> Hi Bernhard,
>
> Thanks so much for the assistance, though I'm still getting stuck.
>
> I've:
>
> 1) Gone to distribution lists and create new list:
>
> List name: staff-group at mydomain.com
> Members: alex.kent at mydomain.com
> Hidden: unchecked
>
> 2) Created a shared folder:
>
> Folder name: staff-shared at mydomain.com
> Folder type: mails
> Permission for UID/email/GID: "group:staff-group at mydomain.com"
> Permission='all'
>
> This generates the error:
>
> "No UID or GID group:staff-group at mydomain.com"
>
> It does accept the UID if I drop "group:" eg:

Indeed, you don't need the "group:" prefix. The mail address is enough  
to identify that this is a group.

I tested that the whole procedure works fine on the recent  
Kolab-Server-2.2.1-beta-1 release but I believe it should also work on  
2.2.0 as I don't think we changed anything in that area.

Can you check if you see the right permissions on the shared folder  
when using the cyradm tool (/kolab/bin/cyradm).

This is the example session when I tested this:

/kolab/bin/cyradm -u manager localhost
Password:
example.com> lm
shared.shared at example.com (HasNoChildren)
user/1 at example.com (HasNoChildren)
user/2 at example.com (HasNoChildren)
example.com> lam shared.shared at eample.com
group:group at example.com lrswipteda
anyone lrswipteda
manager lrswipkxtecda

You see that here the permission is marked with  
"group:group at example.com lrswipteda". The "group:" prefix is cyrus  
specific. Both users (1 at example.com com and 2 at example.com" are members  
of "group at example.com". Both see the shared folder (tested via the  
Kolab web client).

If it still does not work for you I could test the same procedure on 2.2.0.

Cheers,

Gunnar

> Permission for UID/email/GID: "staff-group at mydomain.com" Permission='all'
>
> But this doesn't seem to give me "alex.kent at mydomain.com" access to the
> folder.
>
> Am I getting closer?
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Alex Kent
>
>
>
>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Subject:
>> Re: Groups for shared folders
>> From:
>> Bernhard Reiter <bernhard at intevation.de>
>> Date:
>> Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:32:56 +0100
>> To:
>> kolab-users at kolab.org
>>
>> To:
>> kolab-users at kolab.org
>>
>>
>> On Sonntag, 11. Januar 2009, Alex wrote:
>>
>>> I'm loving kolab, but need a few pointers giving a group of users access
>>> to a shared folder. I can at the moment give access to everyone, nobody
>>> or a specific person.
>>>
>>
>> You can use server distribution lists.
>> (Use the Webadmin for your Kolab Server go to "distribution list",
>> add one with all your users and then use "group:YOURLISTNAME"
>> as UID to give rights to for the folder.
>>
>>
>>> Having searched kolab-users, I've seen a post which seemed to indicate
>>> the following:
>>>
>>> 1) Create a new user of account type 'Group Account'
>>>
>>> 2) Add users to this group account by adding their UID to the
>>> 'Email-Delegates' field of the group account.
>>>
>>
>> Email-Delegates _only_ is about who can use the From: adress
>> for the Account in question. So this does not help.
>>
>>
>>> 3) Create a shared folder, giving the group accounts UID 'post'
>>> permissions.
>>>
>>
>> Post is about incoming emails, so wrong tree. :)
>>
>>
>>> My Mozilla Thunderbird client does not see the new shared folder.
>>> Am I on the right lines here?
>>>
>>
>> You were'nt. ;)
>>
>>
>>
>
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