Issue status update for http://drupal.org/node/20058 Project: Drupal Version: 4.5.2 Component: user.module Category: bug reports Priority: normal Assigned to: Anonymous Reported by: kees Updated by: Prometheus6 Status: patch Your statement makes sense but I think the patch has it backward. --- drupal-4.5.2-hyper/modules/user.module 2005-04-01 10:16:15.000000000 +0200 +++ drupal-4.5.2/modules/user.module 2005-01-05 21:17:33.000000000 +0100 It's deleting stuff from the newer file and adding stuff from the older file. Prometheus6 Previous comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ April 6, 2005 - 06:06 : kees Hi, To be able to update the $user object from a module, the _user('load') hook must be called AFTER loading the current roles from the database, and not before. It is simply a matter of moving one line a few lines down. Here is the unified patch: --- drupal-4.5.2-hyper/modules/user.module 2005-04-01 10:16:15.000000000 +0200 +++ drupal-4.5.2/modules/user.module 2005-01-05 21:17:33.000000000 +0100 @@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ if (db_num_rows($result)) { $user = db_fetch_object($result); $user = drupal_unpack($user); + user_module_invoke('load', $array, $user); $user->roles = array(); $result = db_query('SELECT r.rid, r.name FROM {role} r INNER JOIN {users_roles} ur ON ur.rid = r.rid WHERE ur.uid = %d', $user->uid); @@ -79,7 +80,6 @@ else { $user = new StdClass(); } - user_module_invoke('load', $array, $user); return $user; } @@ -1191,7 +1191,6 @@ $op = arg(2) ? arg(2) : arg(1); } - switch ($op) { case t('E-mail new password'): case 'password':