Permission Errors

[Penfold]

Bug Tracking: Benny's sent me a pm saying he's been locked out of admin. I've looked at his permissions and they mirror Whitey's and Armitage's so I'm not sure atm....?

Thanks

[Anonymous]

Can Whitey and Arm access admin?

[Penfold]

That was my next question

But as neither of them are online atm we'll have to wait and see.

Benny:
                          Re: Permissions          
                                                              Can't see any admin sections. Can see the private chat areas, just none of the section or game admin pieces.       

[Armitage]

i can see here

[Penfold]

ok... hehe ignore my pm

can you see everything you're meant to?

[Doorman]

Obviously I can access this through 'new posts' but I can't see/find the Admin sections.

[smilodon]

Thanks for the heads up. It's now fixed and you should have access again. If that's my only balls up I'll be utterly amazed.

[Penfold]

Is it easy to articulate what the issue was - I looked at their permissions and they 'looked ok' all being section admins and having access to their various areas?

Just for my 'lurning curve - innit'.

[Benny]

Cheers gents.

[smilodon]

For those with far to much free time, here as requested is the theory.

In the admin section I went for security first and remembered Oldies plea about not letting the world see our stuff. I thought it wise to deny all permissions and then allow some back rather than allow all and the restrict some. If I get it wrong then some people will not have access to areas they should rather than have access to areas they should not.

So I locked the dMw Admin section down completely and denied all access to everyone. Then I gave full access back to administrators and let those permissions be inherited by all the sub forums for the Administators. I did the same for Section Heads and locked them out completely but then opened up the forums and sub forums they have access to (I made sure not to let them see the "Why are our Game Section Heads such Twots" forum). And then likewise for Game Admins and Public Admins.

Trouble was I didn't open up the top level forum to the Section Heads so they were unable to see into the sub forums. They had access to these forums hence they could get to them via new post but could not navigate there from the main forum. Once I opened the top tier they could see the forums beneath and all was well

Well you did ask!

[Doorman]

Makes perfect sense to me and I congratulate you on a job well done. :thumbsup2:

[Penfold]

I agree. it's far better to lock people out then re-add them than standing up on the ramparts sticking out our willies and seeing who takes a pot shot.

[Penfold]

Hey Greg.

I've been out tonight but have returned to a further 5 pms. One of which says that o000o/Jamin can't see the supporters section and he's a contributor.

It came in via Ron about 10.35pm so not sure if solved or not. Jamin's not online atmso I can't double check.

[Gandalf]

don't forget that none of the badged based permissions are in place yet! That won't be until tomorrow.

[smilodon]

This bit is private right? They can't see in here can they? No. Good.

My god do people not read anything? Or do I type in English but every one else out there sees some other language? :frusty:

As of tonight the Green Badge Banter, and Supporting Member Chat forums are still not fully functional. You're going to get your access by way of a cool automated system that grants forum permissions as the specific green badge gets awarded.

Also some of the server admin forums may not be fully configured. Give me a day and it 'should' be working. With the exception of the above if you do find yourself with either restricted or broken access to any areas please post the detail here.

Sob :norty:

Still at least people are posting info which is better than  :tumbleweed: