[Calendarserver-maintainers] Bug#499963: Bug#499963: calendarserver: caldavd fails to authenticate and autocreate principal when running with NssDirectoryService

[Guido Günther]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 10:07:29AM -0700, Ben Poliakoff wrote:
> ..pretty sure you meant /var/spool/caldavd.  Permissions seem fine:
Sure. Thanks.
> 
>     [benp at lenny ~]$ sudo su -s /bin/bash caldavd
>     caldavd at lenny:/home/benp$ touch /var/spool/caldavd/test
>     caldavd at lenny:/home/benp$ ls -l /var/spool/caldavd/test
>     -rw-r--r-- 1 caldavd caldavd 0 2008-09-26 10:01 /var/spool/caldavd/test
>     caldavd at lenny:/home/benp$ rm /var/spool/caldavd/test
>     caldavd at lenny:/home/benp$ ls -l /var/spool/caldavd/test
>     ls: cannot access /var/spool/caldavd/test: No such file or directory
>     caldavd at lenny:/home/benp$
This is getting weird. Did you check if the user benp is in the valid
uid range [firstValidUid-lastValidUid]? If he is, it might make sense to
try out the XML backend instead of NSS for testing. 
 -- Guido