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List:       rt-devel
Subject:    RE: [Rt-devel] ModifySelf right produces "Permission Denied"
From:       "Norton, Ian" <i.norton () lancaster ! ac ! uk>
Date:       2005-03-16 9:16:21
Message-ID: 7F332A8009EE5D4CB62C87717A3498A10C1B2000 () exchange-be1 ! lancs ! ac ! uk
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Alex,

Thanks for the patch - that's fixed it.

Ian. 

-----Original Message-----
From: chmrr@zoq-fot-pik.mit.edu [mailto:chmrr@zoq-fot-pik.mit.edu] On
Behalf Of Alex Vandiver
Sent: 15 March 2005 22:43
To: Norton, Ian
Cc: rt-devel@lists.bestpractical.com
Subject: Re: [Rt-devel] ModifySelf right produces "Permission Denied"

On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 15:17 +0000, Ian Norton wrote:
> My apologies for posting this here in addition to rt-users, but I'm 
> beginning to be pretty convinced that this is a bug rather than a 
> configuration problem.

You're right -- this is a bug.  I've got a patch (attached, against
3.4.2), but I'm not sure it's the right patch.  In any case, I've bcc'd
rt-bugs@fsck.com
 - Alex


> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: ModifySelf right produces "Permission Denied"
> Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 14:41:09 +0000
> From: Ian Norton <i.norton@lancaster.ac.uk>
> To: rt-users@lists.bestpractical.com
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I've granted the ModifySelf right to System group Everyone and I'm 
> getting some odd behaviour.
> 
> I can change my password and all my details within the preferences 
> page and the database gets updated.  The problem is that it gives me a

> "Permission Denied" error, even though it has succeeded.
> 
> If I grant the right explicitly to a user and remove it from Everyone,

> it still gives the same problem.
> 
> I'm seeing a similar problem with personal groups, in that everyone is

> granted AdminOwnPersonalGroups which they can do, but there's a 
> Permission Denied error - even though the edits happen.
> 
> I've enabled debugging in my RT_SiteConfig.pm but it's not showing 
> anything unusual:
> 
> [Mon Mar 14 14:30:54 2005] [debug]: About to think about scrips for 
> transaction #6335
> (/usr/local/packages/rt-3.4.1/lib/RT/Transaction_Overlay.pm:154)
> 
> I'm using RT 3.4.1 on Fedora Core 3 with Postgres 7.4.7.
> DBD::Pg is version 1.31
> DBIx::SearchBuilder is version 1.22
> 
> The only time I don't get errors on updating users details is if I do 
> it with a SuperUser enabled account.
> 
> Any suggestions gratefully received as I'm not having any luck 
> tracking this one down :(
> 
> Thanks, Ian.
> --
> Ian Norton
> Mail & Systems Support
> University of Lancaster
> 
> 
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