[Calendarserver-maintainers] Bug#504602: calendarserver: wrong user/group for /var/run/caldavd

[Sander Marechal]

Package: calendarserver
Version: 1.2.dfsg-6
Severity: important


When calendarserver installs, it creates /var/run/caldavd with user/group set to
root/root. When you use digest authentication for calendarserver (which is the
default) then calendarserver will need to write to var/run/caldavd in order to
create files that hold the temorary sqlite tables for /var/run/caldavd/digest.sqlite.

If that directory is not writeable, then calendarserver will run but you will not
be able to authenticate against it (rendering calendarserver pretty useless as a whole,
hence the "important" flag on this bug report).

Please make sure that the install script creates /var/run/caldavd with user/group
set to caldavd/caldavd

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages calendarserver depends on:
ii  adduser                 3.110            add and remove users and groups
ii  lsb-base                3.2-20           Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  python                  2.5.2-2          An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-central          0.6.8            register and build utility for Pyt
ii  python-dateutil         1.4.1-2          powerful extensions to the standar
ii  python-kerberos         1.0+svn2455-1    A GSSAPI interface module for Pyth
ii  python-openssl          0.7-2            Python wrapper around the OpenSSL 
ii  python-pysqlite2        2.4.1-1          Python interface to SQLite 3
ii  python-twisted-calendar 0.2.0.svn19773-5 Twisted components for Apple's Cal
ii  python-vobject          0.6.0-1          parse iCalendar and VCards in Pyth
ii  python-xattr            0.4-4            module for manipulating filesystem
ii  python-xml              0.8.4-10.1       XML tools for Python
ii  ssl-cert                1.0.23           simple debconf wrapper for OpenSSL

calendarserver recommends no packages.

Versions of packages calendarserver suggests:
pn  python-pydirector             <none>     (no description available)

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