[support] Is Rebuilding Permissions Safe?

[Simone Dal Maso]

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


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daniel Carrera" <daniel.carrera at zmsl.com>
To: <support at 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.
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