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Topic: Permissions problems

Posted By: Adrina
Subject: Permissions problems
Date Posted: 22 March 2006 at 11:59am

There are some Permissions problem:

If you have a Group with Moderator rights, they can't moderate the Forum. But if you set an individual user to Moderator permissions, then they can act moderator.

If you add moderator permissions for a group and at the same time to one of the users in that group, that user gets doublets of some forums.

Replies:

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 22 March 2006 at 12:13pm

I'm not sure if it is that I tired or just don't get what you are saying.

Could you please explain the issue again, and what the word doublets means?

Posted By: Adrina
Date Posted: 22 March 2006 at 12:22pm

If UserX are in the Moderator Group, he can't edit posts, change settings in forums, close topics etc.

But if you set individual Permissions for UserX to Forum Moderator then he can edit posts, change settings in forums, close topics etc.

But if UserX belongs to the Moderator Group and you set individual Permissions for him to Forum Moderator, then all Forums that UserX has Moderator Permission to, is showed twice.

I'm sorry for my bad English...

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 22 March 2006 at 12:41pm

I've not been able to replicate this error.

Did you upgrade from a previous version 7.x database, if so there was an issue with the upgrade tool that has now been fixed that coursed a double permissions problem in the database.

Posted By: xjmajor
Date Posted: 22 March 2006 at 1:46pm

This is the same I've reported yesterday.

Thanks to Adrina for explaining, in the night I had the same issue with an user in moderator group and with individual moderating permissions: he view the same forum duplicated.
This occurs after DB conversion from 7.92 to 8rc1, Access.

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 22 March 2006 at 2:08pm

I've updated the upgrade tool this morning, so hopefully the issue has now been sorted out.

It was a mistake in an SQL Query.

Posted By: Adrina
Date Posted: 22 March 2006 at 6:27pm

If you already converted the database with the older version of the tool, are there some way to get the permissions right.

If I clear the permission table in the database and in the Forum admin system set the permission for user groups to what I want. Do you think that will solve the problem?

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 23 March 2006 at 10:52am

Yes it will.

Just delete everything in the permissions table, then re-create the permissions in the admin section.

This is actually a better way to do it than in the upgrade tool, but I had to put something in the upgrade tool becuase before permissions are set no forums will display in the main forum page, and I would imagine this would alarm allot of people.

Posted By: Sluggie
Date Posted: 30 March 2006 at 7:59pm

Just come across this issue too.

In this instance it's a case where the user is a member of a group that has read only access to the forums and then has individual permissions for the same forum too.

Now, reading above you state the the permissions table needs deleting. I take it you mean on the database side itself rather than through any admin function? Just to clarify.

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 31 March 2006 at 8:51am

If you are having issues with permissions after upgrading delete all entries in the tblPermissions table directly in the database, then reapply all permissions through the admin section.

Posted By: yataylimit
Date Posted: 31 March 2006 at 7:41pm

And, if you still experience permission problems after deleting all entries in the tblPermissions table directly in the database, then reapply all permissions through the admin section, just try the new upgrade tool on your current v8 MDB. It fixes almost all permission related problems but you will have to simply arrange the permissions again in the admin section.