Not a bug Not able to reset node permissions

[AndyB]

Affected version

2.2.2

I'm not able to reset node permissions on some nodes.

Admin control panel -> Groups & permissions -> Node permissions -> (Click on forum)



Take for example the Administrative, I want to revert this (show as blue). I set all permissions to Inherit, yet it remains as red. Clean up permissions in the Rebuild caches does not solve the issue.

 

[Mike]

Can you verify what permission entries are showing up in the DB for a node that has this issue? It's in the xf_permission_entry_content table (content_type would be node, content_id would be the node ID).

 

[AndyB]

Thank you, Mike.

 

[Mike]

Well those all appear to be non-standard permissions. Are those valid permissions in xf_permission?

If they are valid/known permissions, are they attached to a disabled add-on? If so, there isn't a spectactular solution here in general, as we don't display permissions from disabled add-ons, but the permissions are in the DB and would certainly come back if the add-on were re-enabled.

If they aren't known permissions, the question is how that happened because we clean up permission entries on deletion (including add-on uninstall). That seems like it might point to a manual query having done something.

 

[AndyB]

are they attached to a disabled add-on?

Hi Mike,

Indeed we had many disabled add-ons. Once those disabled add-ons were uninstalled the node permissions were reset and no longer showing as modified (not showing as red) permissions.

Thank you for your help.