Looks like in Radicale 3.7, there is improved collection sharing? Has anyone tried using this?
I haven’t tried any sharing previously because it seemed like it wasn’t officially (or well) supported before, since you had to do some weird symlink hack.
Is sharing now more officially supported now? I looked at the UI, but I didn’t see anything mentioning sharing…
Well, it was officially and well supported before. It is just awfully complicated and unintuitive. So much that I decided to vibecode a GUI to manage my sharings with family members.
Now that I did that, Radicale’s native sharing and permissions system makes more sense but is still unusable by most people in need of a simple sharing / editing / per user permission management.
Here’s an example:
<rights>
[admin-root] user = user1 collection = permissions = R [admin-principal] user = user1 collection = user1 permissions = RrWw [admin-full] user = user1 collection = user1/.* permissions = RrWw [admin-read-user2-root] user = user1 collection = user2 permissions = R [admin-read-user2-cal1] user = user1 collection = user2/cal1 permissions = Rr [admin-read-user2-cal2] user = user1 collection = user2/cal2 permissions = Rr [user2-root] user = user2 collection = permissions = R [user2-principal] user = user2 collection = user2 permissions = RrWw [user2-full] user = user2 collection = user2/.* permissions = RrWw [user2-read-write-user1-cal3] user = user2 collection = user1/cal3 permissions = RrWw [user2-read-user1-cal4] user = user2 collection = user1/cal4 permissions = Rr [user2-read-user1-cal5] user = user2 collection = user1/cal5 permissions = Rr [user2-read-user1-cal6] user = user2 collection = user1/cal6 permissions = RrFor anyone curious about my vibecoded thingy, I just switched the repo to “public”. It’s in French, but can be instructive for anyone willing to understand more about how sharing and permissions work.
As for Radicale v3.7, I’ll need to check what has changed. Thanks for sharing