EDIT- The issue is having is with “Authentication”. I haven’t made it past that step. Incorrectly said “addresses” on the original post.

Yo yo! Fairly new to making a change towards privacy. My brother gave me a raspberry pi 4 and I want to experiment with that before making a bigger change towards my other electronics. Rn I’m working on using radicale on the pi4 and I’m stuck because I can’t understand the technological language.

I’m trying to follow the tutorial on the radicale website but am getting stuck in the “addresses” authentication part. I can’t enter in anything Into the initial command prompt I used to create the radicale website. And when I make a new command prompt and enter that in nothing happens. I asked AI and it spits out an answer that isn’t dumbed down enough for me. Lemmy is my last hope before I try Reddit …

Tutorial link for clarity https://radicale.org/v3.html#tutorials

  • BlackSnack@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I made an error in my original post. Please see the edit I made.

    But I think I’m understanding a bit! I need to literally create a file named “/etc/radicale/config”. Then after that I need to copy/paste the configuration file/command line into said folder. Once I do that then I should be able to move onto authentication and then addresses.

    • darkan15@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      21 hours ago

      But I think I’m understanding a bit! I need to literally create a file named “/etc/radicale/config”.

      Yes, you will need to create that config file, on one of those paths so you then continue with any of the configuration steps on the documentation, you can do that Addresses step first.

      A second file for the users is needed as well, that I would guess the best location would be /etc/radicale/users

      For the Authentication part, you will need to install the apache2-utils package with sudo apt-get install apache2-utils to use the htpasswd command to add users

      So the command to add users would be htpasswd -5 -c /etc/radicale/users user1 and instead of user1, your username.

      And what you need to add to the config file for it to read your user file would be:

      [auth]
type = htpasswd
htpasswd_filename = /etc/radicale/users
htpasswd_encryption = autodetect

      Replacing the path with the one where you created your users file.