Can non Managed users be iCal server users?

Question

Currently we've had moderate to good success with our test runs or iCal server. One item I'm not in love with however, is that inorder for someone to have an iCal user account and set up iCal on their machine, I first have to enable and set up Open directory. The down side to this is that it then makes them a "Managed User" meaning that there password and login is defined by the server.
We'd like to be able to add people into the mix, without having them be a managed user, and especially without forcing their computer login password and iCal and or server password to be the same.
Thanks in advance for any tips on this,
Greg Montgomery

Answer 1

So having the machine bound to the server isn't such a problem, although if it can be done for some users sans that I'd be interested in learning how.
The bigger problem is that the users are forced to change their passwords/logins on their machine to match the password on the server.
For the most part that is OK, but we have a few users who have their own laptops, and don't like having us control their login.
Greg