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Groups access problem

Noppes Member
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Hi Zenphoto-Community,

I use Zenphoto V1.4.1.3 with the user management plugin. I created two groups, one group can see all albums (incl. unpublished ones) and the group "viewer" should only see certain albums. I gave following rights to the 'viewer' group:

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General: Overview

I assigned certain user to this group and gave them the rights to managed certain albums (I didn't allow them to edit a album).

This worked fine, but a few weeks ago my webspace-server went down and when it came back zenphoto told me to run the setup-scripts again (my provider didn't tell me what happens, I think he installed a new PHP Version and did some other installation). I uploaded the setup-files again and did the re installation and the installation worked fine. After that I recognize that the user of the viewer-group couldn't access the some of their albums anymore. They always got the message they need to log-in, even they were already logged-in. Then I saw in the admin-tab that all users weren't assigned to their groups anymore. I reassigned them to their groups again, but still the group viewer can't access their albums. What could be the problem? I installed the latest nightly build, but this didn't solved the problem. Did I something wrong (wrong setting for the rights) or is my installation messed up? It worked fine before the re-installation, after the re-installed I only re-assigned the user to their groups. Or is their a change in the user management from version 1.4.1.2 to 1.4.1.3?

Thanks for your help

Norbert

Comments

  • sbillard Member
    No change in behavior between those releases. Most likely something has changed in your database. That is pretty much the only explaination of why the users would no longer be assigned to their groups.

    Maybe check the groups rights and be sure they are what you expect them to be. Maybe they got changed as well?
  • Noppes Member
    Thanks for your answer. Yes, I checked them too. As I msentioned before my group rights are as following:

    Albums: View fullimage
    Gallery: View gallery, view search, post comments
    General: Overview

    I assigned certain user to this group and gave them the rights to managed certain albums (I didn't allow them to edit a album or see unpublished pictures, I only assigned the neccessary album to them).

    Now I figured out that it works as it should when I allow the user to see unpublished pictures in in the managed albums settings. I didn't need to do this before, but when I do this now it works. Is it not enough to assign albums to a group without allowing them to edit or to see unpublished pictures?

    Thanks again for your help

    Norbert
  • Noppes Member
    I forgot to mention when I don't allow the group to see unpublished pcitures (in the managed albums settings) then they can't access the albums that I have assigned to them
  • sbillard Member
    I can reproduce this. Thanks for your description.
  • Noppes Member
    Is this a bug or a feature?
  • sbillard Member
    Sigh. It is a bug. The fix will be in tonight's nightly build.
  • Noppes Member
    Thanks. That is great - thanks a lot for your help and your indefatigable work on this project!
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