Can’t update user’s post as an admin

I'm trying to edit a user's post and I get this error:
Sorry, only members with sufficient permission can access this page.

I'm an admin, so I should be able to change it, no?

I can change my own posts, but not any of my users.

I'm running v7.9.

Ok, I'll upgrade to 7.97. Though since I have several lines of modified code might take me awhile to integrate 7.97.

Curious - do you recall if v7.9 didn't allow admins to edit user's posts? This should work, right?

I am an admin, I can even access the admin page. Within the admin pages the only related thing I see is a drop-down box that says "Edit Posts" and I have it currently set to Registered Users. I even tried setting it to Forum Admins Only but that didn't work either.

I don't see any other specific checkbox or drop-down box that specifically says only allow users to edit their own posts. Thus, I assume WebWiz by default since version 1.0 allows Admins to edit user's posts?

Unless there is a specific permission I haven't used before.

Can you tell me where in the code it does the security check to see if you are allowed to edit a post? i.e. which file and approximate line number? Maybe I can troubleshoot. Maybe it's the code I added myself, such as the 24 hour delay before posting as a new user.

Hmm, that's about where I was troubleshooting. These are the lines in question, right?
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If (((lngLoggedInUserID = lngPostUserID OR blnAdmin OR blnModerator) AND (blnEdit) AND (strMode="edit" OR

strMode="editTopic")) OR (blnReply = True AND strMode = "quote")) AND blnActiveMember AND (blnForumLocked = False) AND

(blnTopicLocked = False) Then


    'See if the users browser is RTE enabled
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For testing, I deleted all references to "blnAdmin" just to see if the Edit page (edit_posts.asp) would still display. I would expect it would NOT display if I now attempted to Edit a post that was not mine (I'm an admin). But it DID load the edit_posts.asp page with the WYSIWYG editor. Strange.

Maybe I'm not looking at the right lines of code?

I will say that the error message "Sorry, only members with sufficient permission can access this page." isn't the expected error message. Not sure why it's displaying the strTxtInsufficientPermison constant and the insufficient_permissions.asp Access Denied page.

I would expect to see strTxtNoPermissionToEditPost = "Sorry, you do not have permission to edit this post!" message.

Any ideas why insufficient_permissions.asp would be called? Usually that's a cookie problem or banned IP, etc. Obviously, it's none of these issues. Very odd that users can edit their own posts, including me, but admins can't edit users' posts. I would think it wouldn't work at all, not "partially".

If no more suggestions, I'll go for the upgrade in the next week or so. Thanks for all your help.






Edited by voip-dude - 24 February 2006 at 3:36pm

Hi, I've got the same problem - tried adding the Response.Write above the "if" but still the same problem - admin can't edit posts. I'm on version 7.8. Can anyone help please?