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henry at compumentor

Sep 14, 2005, 4:07 PM

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Non-anonymous editing problems

I am encountering problems when I attempt to disallow anonymous editing
in version 1.5 RC4. I am using the $wgGroupPermissions settings as
follows:

$wgGroupPermissions = array();
$wgGroupPermissions['*' ]['createaccount'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['*' ]['read'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['user' ]['edit'] = true;

This indeed does not allow anonymous users to edit. But, it also
prevents registered users from editing and saving. When they hit the
"Save page" button, they get the message, "Remember that this is only a
preview, and has not yet been saved!" as if they had hit the "Show
preview."

And, in fact, when I take $wgGroupPermissions settings out, only
anonymous users can edit and logged in users see the same behavior as
above. Arrgh!

This was also happening in 1.4, which I just upgraded our site to 1.5
RC4 hoping that it fix the problem that was preventing this from working
correctly. But, the same stubborn problem persists.

Any tips for me? Thanks.

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brion at pobox

Sep 14, 2005, 6:17 PM

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Re: Non-anonymous editing problems [In reply to]

Henry Kumagai wrote:
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> This indeed does not allow anonymous users to edit. But, it also
> prevents registered users from editing and saving. When they hit the
> "Save page" button, they get the message, "Remember that this is only a
> preview, and has not yet been saved!" as if they had hit the "Show
> preview."
>
> And, in fact, when I take $wgGroupPermissions settings out, only
> anonymous users can edit and logged in users see the same behavior as
> above. Arrgh!

Sounds like you have a problem with session data; this is unrelated to
the group permissions, and will cause edits and other actions by
logged-in users to fail due to the failure of a security check to
protect against hijacked sessions.

Make sure that PHP's sessions are configured correctly to save to a path
that actually exists. If you're on Windows, the default is almost always
wrong. If you're on a shared server farm like Sourceforge, you may need
to customize the path to a shared network location instead of the local
hard drive of each server.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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