Issue: Test Permissions and Analyze Permissions Does Not Work with Wiki Permissions

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September 9, 2016 7:47 AM

Gossamer

Junior Member

Test Permissions and Analyze Permissions Does Not Work with Wiki Permissions

Xenforo, to help with permissions troubleshooting, has two tools: Test Permissions and Analyze Permissions. When I was trying to figure out why a user could not edit the wiki, I tried using Test Permissions to view the board with their permission set, but this did not take wiki permissions into account. Even when I had an article set to collaboration prevention with my own account, when testing another user's permissions I could still edit that article.

Analyze Permissions also does not display VaultWiki permissions.

Issue Details

Issue Number 4715

Issue Type Bug

Project VaultWiki 4.x Series

Category Permissions / Security

Status Fixed

Priority 3 - Loss of Functionality

Affected Version 4.0.12

Fixed Version 4.1.0 Beta 4

Milestone (none)

Software DependencyXenForo 1.x

License TypePaid

Users able to reproduce bug 0

Users unable to reproduce bug 0

Attachments 0

Assigned Users (none)

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September 9, 2016 12:11 PM

pegasus

VaultWiki Team

In the mean time, you can see a user's permissions by going to Wiki Admin Panel > Permissions > Access Masks. Enter a username as if you were going to create a new mask. All of the "Not Set" values on this page should reflect the user's current permissions. If you hover over one of the values, the tooltip will tell you where the user got that permission.

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August 9, 2017 10:42 AM

pegasus

VaultWiki Team

Regarding collaboration protection, according to Test Permissions, the behavior you saw was correct:

As this user's permissions will be applied to your account, keep in mind that user-specific permissions will affect you. For example, if the user you're testing as can only edit his/her own posts, you will only be able to edit your own posts.

Example, normally since pegasus is a moderator, he can edit everyone's posts. Testuser can only edit his own posts. As pegasus I tested permissions of user Testuser, using XenForo Test Permissions. I could now only edit pegasus's posts. This behavior would not be changed by fixing the issue of wiki permissions not being included in test permissions.

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August 9, 2017 1:50 PM

pegasus

VaultWiki Team

Fixed Test Permissions in the next release.

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September 26, 2019 3:43 PM

pegasus

VaultWiki Team

Marking this as fixed in the next release of 4.1.x.

In the next release, XF1 and XF2's respective "Analyze Permissions" pages will include the appropriate analyses for wiki permissions.
Test Permissions, which only exists in XF1, had already received support per my previous post.

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Issue: Test Permissions and Analyze Permissions Does Not Work with Wiki Permissions

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