[support] Is Rebuilding Permissions Safe?

[Daniel Carrera]

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:
> 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
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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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