Deleting User Custom Permissions

[Ryan Kent]

I accidentally gave a User custom permissions. I went into the User customer permissions template and made the necessary corrections to where this user has no special permissions but this user still appears in the Admin CP --> Users --> User Permission area. How can I have this user removed from that area?

PS. It's actually the admin acct. I wanted to adjust the admin group template and made an error. If it was another acct I'd probably try deleting the acct and making a new one, but don't wish to try this with the admin acct.

 

[Paul B]

Just set all the user permissions to Not Set (no).

That will remove any custom permissions and they will inherit their permissions from any usergroups they are a member of.

 

[Ryan Kent]

I've done that, but the "admin" still appears in the list. I could ignore it as a minor annoyance. Not sure if this would be considered a bug or a minor request, but since there should be a way to delete an entry in this list.

Users with Custom Permissions

1. User Info
   admin
   

 

[Paul B]

Make sure you set the fields which accept a value to 0 (Time limit on editing/deleting own posts (minutes), etc.)

 

[Ryan Kent]

All numeric values are 0. The issue arose after I installed XenPorta. The only change I originally made was to ALLOW the two new XenPorta settings. When I discovered my error, I changed the settings back to Not Set (NO).

 

[Mike]

Note that moderators are expected to show up there. That's how moderator permissions work.

 

[Ryan Kent]

This is a new forum setup and there are presently no admins or mods. I went ahead and gave moderator rights to a test account and it does not show up here. I then gave admin rights to that same account and it still does not show up here.

I realize there are a lot more serious concerns, and this issue is minor. You may just want to make a note of it in case it is brought up later.

 

[anotheralias]

I have the same problem. I gave someone user-specific permissions, it was only intended to be temporary; now I can't delete their name out of that section - I can only change the permissions. Which is annoying.

 

[Paul B]

I've just tested this on my local install and was able to remove all users with custom permissions, moderators, administrators and super admins.

I'll do some more testing to see if I can find out when it doesn't work.

 

[Ryan Kent]

Attached are screenshots of what I am looking at in case you can see something I am missing.

 

[Paul B]

Three screenshots show all green for general moderator permissions, forum moderator permissions and profile post moderator permissions.

You haven't set everything to Not Set (No) as I suggested.

 

[Ryan Kent]

I changed all the permissions to Not Set (NO) based on your last post and.....the admin account was removed from the Custom Permissions list!

Thanks so much Brogan! You are awesome! I can't begin to say how much I appreciate how you stick with an issue until it is resolved.

As a side note, no one else has access to the admin account except for myself, and no one else has any permissions on these forums higher then Registered User. I never accessed the User Permission screen before today, I was only on there for moments, and the sole purpose was to change the XenPorta settings. I definitely did not change those settings to Allow, so I left them as I found them. I suspect the system somehow assigned those values there causing the problem.

anotheralias, I hope this information helps you. Change all values to Not Set (NO) and the issue should be resolved.

 

[anotheralias]

Thanks Brogan and Oracle - I'll give that a try.

 

[Paul B]

As an aside, Mike has also tweaked the code slightly to do with custom permissions for deleted add-ons so hopefully there should be no issues going forward.