How to have Read Only Access
Note
Beware that I've been confirmed that Notes
IMAP implementation in Kontact prior to version 1.01 is
broken, so this setup will not work for them, so you want to use them, you
need to use the previous setup.
In the previous setup, we have the same “fake” user, named
groupware, that is used by all the
“real” Kontact users (i.e. tony, rohn, amanda, etc.) through the
IMAP account with its login and password. But this way
every real user has the same read/write permissions of the others, since
everyone connects as the user groupware to the IMAP
server.
To limit access to some users (typically, providing read-only access),
we can use the ACL (Access Control Lists).
Select in KMail a subfolder of
office_gwdata
inbox, for instance
Calendar
, and right click the
mouse. Select
Properties
Access
Control
tab. Here you can enter the users you want give access to
this folder and what they can do.
Just to experiment trying to exchange events, we give
“All” permission to the user mary
At cyrus level (in the
PC that runs IMAP server cyrus, with
cyrus tools), we first need to add the user
mary, so it's an
IMAP recognized user, and create an
IMAP folder for her.
Then we login to GNU/Linux as mary and enter Kontact. As previously shown,
we will setup an IMAP account in KMail with the same
data but the one of the user (instead of the fake user groupware and its password, we will use
mary and her password).
In KMail folder tree, this time you will see this structure:
->
->
->
. Check the mail
(
->
) and you will also have an
“inbox” folder under “office_gwdata”.
Now enable KMail groupware functionality, and in
Resource
folders are subfolders of
put the
that is subfolder of
“office_gwdata”.
Now enable KMail groupware functionality, and in
Resource
folders are subfolders of
put the
that is subfolder of
.
Now you have two branches of folder under
“office_gwdata”:
-
“inbox” with Calendar, Contacts, Notes, Tasks and
Journal, that are saved on mary
IMAP folders on the IMAP server
-
“user”, with the subfolder “groupware” and
the subfolders to which mary has
access to (in this example, Calendar and Tasks)
right mouse button click on the “user” “Calendar” and
check if it's of type Calendar (if not, set it to be), and also if
“user”“Tasks” is of type Tasks.
Now in Calendar you have two available IMAP
resources to write against, so if you create a new event, you are prompted
which one use (or if you left the local resources available, you have
3!).
You have go to the lower left small window in Calendar, the one that
shows available resources, and uncheck the ones that don't point to
.groupware.directory
path (see the tail part of each
resource path).
