

Well, it was officially and well supported before. It is just awfully complicated and unintuitive. So much that I decided to vibecode a GUI to manage my sharings with family members.
Now that I did that, Radicale’s native sharing and permissions system makes more sense but is still unusable by most people in need of a simple sharing / editing / per user permission management.
Here’s an example:
<rights>
[admin-root]
user = user1
collection =
permissions = R
[admin-principal]
user = user1
collection = user1
permissions = RrWw
[admin-full]
user = user1
collection = user1/.*
permissions = RrWw
[admin-read-user2-root]
user = user1
collection = user2
permissions = R
[admin-read-user2-cal1]
user = user1
collection = user2/cal1
permissions = Rr
[admin-read-user2-cal2]
user = user1
collection = user2/cal2
permissions = Rr
[user2-root]
user = user2
collection =
permissions = R
[user2-principal]
user = user2
collection = user2
permissions = RrWw
[user2-full]
user = user2
collection = user2/.*
permissions = RrWw
[user2-read-write-user1-cal3]
user = user2
collection = user1/cal3
permissions = RrWw
[user2-read-user1-cal4]
user = user2
collection = user1/cal4
permissions = Rr
[user2-read-user1-cal5]
user = user2
collection = user1/cal5
permissions = Rr
[user2-read-user1-cal6]
user = user2
collection = user1/cal6
permissions = Rr
For anyone curious about my vibecoded thingy, I just switched the repo to “public”. It’s in French, but can be instructive for anyone willing to understand more about how sharing and permissions work.
As for Radicale v3.7, I’ll need to check what has changed. Thanks for sharing



Looks awesome. Thanks for sharing !