Thanks.

And thanks for mentioning backups :) I just realize that if I make a backup and then restore it I'll reset everything to the way it was at the time of the backup. So rebuilding permissions would be very low risk.

Daniel.

Simone Dal Maso wrote:

I never have problem with that option. It solved many problems, so I use it without risc. Anyway, a backup is always useful. Bye.

-- Simone Dal Maso.

Homepage di sviluppo comunita' NVDA: http://www.nvda.it homepage gruppo musicale non piu' aggiornata ma simpatica: http://www.juvox.it

----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Carrera" daniel.carrera@zmsl.com To: support@drupal.org Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 11:35 AM Subject: [support] Is Rebuilding Permissions Safe?

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Hello,

I just upgraded to Drupal 5 and I have some minor problems with taxonomy_access permissions. It occurred to me that I might try "rebuild permissions" before I spent too much time chasing the problem, but when I go to "rebuild permissions" I get a warning:

"Are you sure you want to rebuild node permissions on the site? This will wipe all current node permissions and rebuild them based on current settings. Rebuilding the permissions may take a while so please be patient. This action cannot be undone."

Is it safe to run "rebuild permissions"? I have permissions so that certain pages can only be edited by certain roles (taxonomy_access). Will those permissions be wiped out? There are a lot of pages on my site including hundreds of blog pages from users with certain default permissions. Is it safe to run rebuild-permissions?

This is a test site, and in the worst case I can build it again, but I really really don't want to lose several days' work for no good reason.

Thanks. Daniel. -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]

FYI please note that rebuilding permission can bring your site down if you have a lot of nodes (for exemple 50.000). There are strategies to face the problem. In D6 it will be much easier with the batch API (I guess, I am not using D6 yet on big sites). In D5, we are hacking the node access module to do a progressive permission rebuiling in an update_X function (which works like the batch API of D6) Damien Cirotteau www.rue89.com

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Daniel Carrera daniel.carrera@zmsl.com wrote:

Ok. I rebuilt the permissions. I did no harm to the website, but it also didn't help. Oh well.

Thanks for the help.

Daniel Carrera wrote:

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Thanks.

And thanks for mentioning backups :) I just realize that if I make a backup and then restore it I'll reset everything to the way it was at the time of the backup. So rebuilding permissions would be very low risk.

Daniel.

Simone Dal Maso wrote:

...

I never have problem with that option. It solved many problems, so I use it without risc. Anyway, a backup is always useful. Bye.

-- Simone Dal Maso.

Homepage di sviluppo comunita' NVDA: http://www.nvda.it homepage gruppo musicale non piu' aggiornata ma simpatica: http://www.juvox.it

----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Carrera" daniel.carrera@zmsl.com To: support@drupal.org Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 11:35 AM Subject: [support] Is Rebuilding Permissions Safe?

...

Hello,

I just upgraded to Drupal 5 and I have some minor problems with taxonomy_access permissions. It occurred to me that I might try "rebuild permissions" before I spent too much time chasing the problem, but when I go to "rebuild permissions" I get a warning:

"Are you sure you want to rebuild node permissions on the site? This will wipe all current node permissions and rebuild them based on current settings. Rebuilding the permissions may take a while so please be patient. This action cannot be undone."

Is it safe to run "rebuild permissions"? I have permissions so that certain pages can only be edited by certain roles (taxonomy_access). Will those permissions be wiped out? There are a lot of pages on my site including hundreds of blog pages from users with certain default permissions. Is it safe to run rebuild-permissions?

This is a test site, and in the worst case I can build it again, but I really really don't want to lose several days' work for no good reason.

Thanks. Daniel. -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]

-- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]