[OGo-Users] contacts with no access in zidestore/user/public/Contacts

Adam Williams users@opengroupware.org
Wed, 04 Oct 2006 07:47:04 -0400


> > > I just want to know, whether it is intended that contacts, where I  
> > > do not have permissions to access, as explained above, are shown in  
> > > the dav mounted drive?
> > ZideStore does not honor ACLs (for performance reasons) in some  
> > operations (mostly PROPFINDs). But I think you should be unable to  
> > 'cat' (GET) it.
> yes, that is right, I am unable to see the contents. Unfortunately, when I 
> have the drive mounted, and tell kaddressbook from kontact to use it, i get 
> for each user, error messages, that I have to click away.
> So feel it is that way, and I have to live with that?

I think an option in the address book to silently pass on objects were a
permission-denied occurs is the correct solution.

This is how we deal with this in our internal stuff;  a query returns a
list of qualified objects and each of those objects is then requested
from the server,  objects that cannot be retrieved are just removed from
the result list.