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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Sigh, I am going to try this one last time, just because I am eternal optimist.

1) You sync user accounts from LDAP to calibre with default passwords. i.e. the same dummy password for all user accounts.

2) You get Apache to re-write the Authorization header so it contains the username and this default password instead of the actual password.

Then we came to a similar solution, as I wrote, this is almost what I do now. Me too rewrite the AuthHeaders in Apache, not just the Password but the users to default ones too. This would be easier, cause in the other case one had to base64-encode the dynamic usernames with the help of the apache config (The AuthString for BasicAuth is bas64 encoded form of "username: password"); don't figured out if and how this is possible. This is my solution:

   #NonAdult                                                                                                                                                
    RequestHeader set Authorization "Basic <NonAdultUserPassString>" expr=(%{REMOTE_USER}in{"Sarah"})                                                                                                    
    #All                                                                                                                          
    RequestHeader set Authorization "Basic <AllUserPassString>" expr=(%{REMOTE_USER}in{"John","Jane"})

This means I have just one technical user with an unimportant password for each virt lib and just "map" the LDAP Users to these technical calibre users.

This complicates things a little compaired to V2 but it generally woks.

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

4) You cannot run the server and the GUI at the same time because they both can make changes to the calibre library. Pick one.

I know, I don't do this even in V2. I have one little "Work" library where I import new Books edit them to my needs with the calibre Windows GUI and then - also with the calibre GUI - move the finished Book to the "Online" library which calibre-server on the linnux-vm serves. Works quite good.

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

I am done with this thread. It seems to be filled with people asking the same questions over and over again, despite my having them answered already.

Why so excited? Just relax, and perhaps think a little, WHY many people ask similar questions, there must be a reason for it...
We just all want to help make this good software even better.. a single developer can't think of (and less test) each and every use case that could came up in a larger community like this one of calibre, just quite normal. So shouldn't you be a little more thankful of the communities contribution?