[support] Access control modules do not work . . .

[Victor Kane]

the link to the class notes, sorry: http://groups.drupal.org/node/3307

On 5/16/07, Victor Kane <victorkane at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am no expert, but there was a wonderful drupal dojo lesson on ACL
> and other niceties of the Drupal node access system, given by Andy
> Kirkham (ajk^) himself, and I wrote up the class notes, perhaps they
> might be of help:
>
> btw, make sure you backup your database before zapping your node access table :)
>
> saludos,
>
> Victor Kane
> http://awebfactory.com.ar
>
> On 5/16/07, Jason Flatt <drupal at oadaeh.net> wrote:
> > On Wednesday May 16 2007 3:30 am, Victor Kane wrote:
> > > > Quoting Jason Flatt <drupal at oadaeh.net>:
> > > > > I've got an intranet site up and running that was started w/Drupal
> > > > > 4.7.something.  I installed, at that time, the node privacy byrole
> > > > > module [1] to control who can access what.  Eventually, I got around to
> > > > > updating the site to Drupal 5.  Before I started that process, I
> > > > > disabled all contributed modules, including node privacy byrole.  I was
> > > > > pretty sure I followed all the steps necessary to disable that module,
> > > > > but I must have missed something, because now no access control module
> > > > > I've tried will work.
> > >
> > > What does that mean, exactly? You can't access the nodes? Anyone can
> > > access the nodes?
> >
> > Everyone can access all nodes regardless of the access control scheme I have
> > in place.  I'm trying to limit who can access what, and it's not working.  I
> > have another site in place where I'm using tac_lite quite successfully, so
> > I'm sure it's not the module or my use of it, but something in the site's
> > configuration, database, or something else that I have not been able to find
> > yet.
> >
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