[development] user_save() trying to create a duplicate user

[David Metzler]

Here's an example from my CAS module.

         // Become user 1 to be able to save profile information
          $admin = array('uid'=> 1);
          $user = user_load($admin);

If you're operating as a normal user you'll want to save away the  
value of the current user, become admin , do your save stuff, then  
become the normal user again. Something like:

    global $user;
    $temp_user = $user;
    $admin= array('uid' => 1);
    $user = user_load($admin);

    ... do some save stuff

    $user = user_load($temp_user);


This of course should only be used when you're trying to circumvent  
permissions checked by user_save() (do you have permissions to modify  
user roles for example).

I thought there used to be code in cron.php to do this, but I think I  
may just be remembering wrong. Perhaps someone else on the dev list  
could answer the question of who the cron user executes as.

As I said, not 100% sure this is your problem, but I do know you'll  
have problems having generic users sync up their roles unless you do  
this permissions escalation.

On Feb 5, 2008, at 5:46 AM, Neil Goodman wrote:

> No, how do I go about transitioning to user 1 for the save operations?
>
> Right now I just call the function and I assume the permissions  
> would be of whoever is using the module at the time. How do  
> permissions get determined with things like hook_cron()?
>
> Neil Goodman
>
> On Feb 4, 2008 10:44 PM, David Metzler <metzlerd at metzlerd.com> wrote:
> Last time I ran into something close to this it was because of  
> permissions.  Are you transitioning to user 1 for the save operations?
>
> Might be completely off base.... but that's my experience.
>
> On Feb 4, 2008, at 5:34 PM, Neil Goodman wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm currently trying to solve a bug report for my module (http:// 
>> drupal.org/node/217639). rallycivic keeps getting a "__clone  
>> method called on non-object"  when he runs a function in my  
>> module. My module runs through a CiviCRM database and pulls out  
>> certain CiviCRM contacts that have membership status. The goal is  
>> to get this status synchronized to a Drupal role. There is a  
>> static method in the CiviCRM API called  
>> CRM_Core_BAO_UFMatch::getUFId(). This method will take a CiviCRM  
>> contact id and return its corresponding Drupal uid. I then take  
>> this list of uids and pass it to the user_multiple_role_edit()  
>> function. This function uses the user_save() function to apply  
>> role changes. I think that one of rallcivic's uids is causing an  
>> issue with this function. From reading the user_save() function's  
>> code I can see that it tries to create a new user if the uid  
>> doesn't exist. For some reason I think it is trying to do this on  
>> a valid uid, which throws a duplicate error that rallycivic has  
>> found in watchdog:
>>
>> "Location	http://chelmsfordmc.co.uk/admin/settings/ 
>> civimember_roles/manual_sync
>> Referrer	http://chelmsfordmc.co.uk/admin/settings/civimember_roles/ 
>> manual_sync
>> Message Duplicate entry '' for key 2 query: INSERT INTO users  
>> (uid, created, access) VALUES (404, 1202163268, 1202163268) in / 
>> home/chelmsf/public_html/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 172."
>>
>> Then the drupal_clone() function is called on a bogus object and  
>> throws the clone method error. At least, that is what I think is  
>> happening.
>>
>> Has anyone ran into a situation similar to this before?
>>
>> Neil Goodman
>
>

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