| Confusion over inheritance and permissions [message #12123] |
Tue, 29 July 2003 14:52  |
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Please correct me if I'm wrong, but under Groups Manager, 'Inherit from' only deals with group permissions, not member permissions, right?
I create a new group "OLD_GAMES", say 'yes' to global anon and reg masks, set 'Inherit from' to 'Nowhere'. Then I 'edit users' of that new group and set global anon and reg users to only have 'view' and 'read' permissions.
Then I go back to Groups Manager, click 'edit' on an existing group and change its 'Inherit from' from a different group to "OLD_GAMES".
I then click 'edit' on "OLD_Games" and select that existing forum under Group Resources and click update.
Then when I click 'edit users' on that existing forum, I *expect* to see the same global anon and reg users set to only 'view' and 'read' permissions, but I don't see that!
Its quite possible that some time ago I had manually edited the global anon and reg users permissions for that existing forum, and now those are still the permissions I see, even though "OLD_GAMES" group is supposed to be controlling that existing forum now. I even went through other 'control' groups that I had made in the past to ensure that no other group was set to control that existing forum under Group Resources.
So, I'm not seeing the behaviour I'm expecting.
If it is a problem of previously manually set user permissions (global anon and reg users) on that existing forum, how can I 'reset' or 'remove' those permissions so that they can be set correctly by the "OLD_GAMES" group? I may have a LOT of this kind of problem (using version 2.3.5), and finally decided to ask about it.
(this is where it would be VERY handy to see a tree diagram showing where all the permissions for that forum are set from, (which groups control that forum, where manually set user permissions may block group set user permissions) so I could know where the problem was located)
Thank you.
Ron Miller
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