Radicale - What am I supposed to do? (radicale.org)
from Flax_vert@feddit.uk to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 02 Oct 12:50
https://feddit.uk/post/37274494

So I am following the Radicale docs.

And the first method is this:

as normal user Recommended only for testing

Okay, I’m not testing, so I move onto the next one:

as system user (or as root) Alternatively, you can install and run as system user or as root (not recommended):

Okay, so this method is not recommended…

And there aren’t anymore.

So what’s the recommended method for non-testing environments???

#selfhosted

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nitrolife@rekabu.ru on 02 Oct 12:53 next collapse

as normal user but via systemd service (Linux with systemd system-wide)

truthfultemporarily@feddit.org on 02 Oct 12:56 next collapse

Everything should run under their own user when possible. This software is not using a privileged port (< 1000) so it doesn’t need root.

The docs seem a bit lazy if that is not recommended, possibly it will try to access some files it does not have access to.

Flax_vert@feddit.uk on 02 Oct 12:59 collapse

So I make a new user for it, but NOT root?

rtxn@lemmy.world on 02 Oct 13:46 collapse

You make a new normal, non-root user specifically to run Radicale processes. The user should have write access only to Radicale’s directories, nothing else.

Same deal with Apache and the www-data user.

non_burglar@lemmy.world on 02 Oct 13:13 next collapse

Recommended method is run the service as non-root and non-reserved (over 1000). The radicale documents aren’t the best, but CalDAV and CarDAV aren’t the simplest standards to implement, nor do any of the big (ms, gmail) follow the “correct spec” correctly anyway.

For example, you have to manipulate an address book exported from Google before it can be imported into Radicale.

I don’t blame the dev, though. They are pretty much a one-man show and although radicale is a connector service you don’t interact with much, it’s crazy complicated.

Flax_vert@feddit.uk on 02 Oct 13:49 collapse

Is there anything that’s better that you recommend?

non_burglar@lemmy.world on 02 Oct 14:01 collapse

No, not really.

I also had some issue figuring out how radicale works, bit now that I do have it setup, it “just works” and it does the job well.

ComradeMiao@lemmy.world on 02 Oct 13:17 next collapse

Baikal is much easier

frongt@lemmy.zip on 02 Oct 13:23 next collapse

As a system user. Root is not recommended.

FlowerFan@piefed.blahaj.zone on 03 Oct 12:00 next collapse

  • A normal user (for testing)
  • a root user (not recommended)
  • a system user (yes, this one)
Urist@lemmy.ml on 03 Oct 17:43 collapse

They have split the doc for installation (i.e. procure binaries) and running as a service. Providing you can do the first, it is the latter linked part that tells you how to set up Radicale.