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List:       jetspeed-user
Subject:    RE: Possible data integrity fault: Removed 'user' role kills admin
From:       "Mark Orciuch" <morciuch () apache ! org>
Date:       2002-12-27 17:55:21
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Please log this into Bugzilla. Thanks!

Best regards,

Mark Orciuch - morciuch@apache.org
Jakarta Jetspeed - Enterprise Portal in Java
http://jakarta.apache.org/jetspeed/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: garym@maya.dyndns.org [mailto:garym@maya.dyndns.org]On Behalf Of
> Gary Lawrence Murphy
> Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 11:30 AM
> To: Jetspeed Users List
> Subject: Possible data integrity fault: Removed 'user' role kills admin
> 
> 
> 
> This appears to be a data-integrity problem where deleting a role
> has not been properly propagated or protected against:  Seeking to
> refactor the role of "user" to "member" and "guest", I removed the
> role of "user" and now jetspeed refuses to assign any roles to 
> any users returning instead errors like
> 
>    Failed update role+permission:
>    org.apache.jetspeed.services.security.GroupException: Unjoin group
>    'Jetspeed' to user 'anon' failed: : Unknown role 'user'
> 
> Adding the 'user' role back in corrects the problem.  My guess is that
> you have to manually ensure that the role is no longer used before you
> remove it, but this should be detected when someone tries to delete
> a role.
> -- 
> Gary Lawrence Murphy - garym@teledyn.com - TeleDynamics Communications
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